Newark Mayor Bob Diebold is now proposing to eliminate one at-large councilman and require the other two to be residents of 1) east, and 2) west because, well, the 5th Ward is overloaded with at-large councilmen.
Such a move would tilt council in a way that Council President Guthrie could no longer function as a tie-breaker vote, thus burying an essential check on Newark government balance of power. It would also eliminate, as one of the mayor's personal bumps in the road, At-Large Councilman Rhodes.
Read the Advocate report here.
We do, indeed, need a professional city manager, not politics as usual.
Friday, November 7, 2008
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