never in doubt

It looks like baseball fat cats can count on Washington, D.C. mayor Anthony Williams to represent their interests ahead of those of mere citizens or voters in the nation's capital.

"D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams said yesterday that voters can throw him out of office if they don't like his plan to bring a baseball team to the city.
'You're elected not to be a refrigerator or a mirror and just reflect what people are saying,' Mr. Williams said during an appearance on 'Fox News Sunday' with Chris Wallace.
'Ten [percent], 20 percent of the time you're elected to do what you think is in the best interests of the city,' the mayor said. 'If people don't agree with that, they can throw you out next time. And I think this is one of those issues.'"

So, the mayor's priority is to bring a baseball team to Washington, a city with an astoundingly high crime rate and some of the most expensive and worst performing public schools in the nation. And if the voters don't like it, they can get rid of him in a few years. In fact, since the mayor is in his second term and the voters have yet to show much concern about the astoundingly high crime rate and some of the most expensive and worst performing public schools in the nation, something as minor as wasting only several hundred million dollars to bring in a baseball team is not likely to make a difference.

Given the traditionally poor performance of the D.C. government, one has to wonder why Council Chairman Linda W. Cropp is even opposing the baseball giveaway; after all, it is not her money and more than it is the mayor's and caring about the taxpayers has never been a concern of the city council in the past.