I don’t care if he accomplishes a fraction fo what he lays out here, nearly all of it would be good for the city, particularly reclaiming the waterfront from the 190!

It’s true that there’s no slick message coming from the Kearns campaign. This seems to be a lament that he is not packaging himself properly. Meanwhile, Brown is rolling out his ribbon-cutting-a-day strategy, to give the appearance of momentum and improvement. Brown is projecting the image of a coherent plan to develop the City. Brown is creating the illusion of accountability. Brown is controlling the message. And other members of the Democrat establishment are reenforcing that image.

But it is a false image. Crime is not down in the City of Buffalo. If you take the crime rate and adjust it for the loss of population over the same time period, it is actually up. Brown points to last years homicide body count as an indication of improvement of public safety. However, if you compare the homicide rate over the first three years of the Brown Administration to the rate during the last three years of the Masiello Administration, the number of homicides actually increased.

What’s distressing about your post is that it is defeatist. Not from the perspective of a political partisan of Kearns, or a staunch opponent of Brown, but as another version of the lament that all politicians are the same, that nothing will ever change, that people are too stupid to vote properly, that corrupt candidates would be thrown out but the opponents are always lacking, etc.

Kearns has no money (and therefore no obligations to anyone). Kearns has no “message” (which means he hasn’t willfully lied to us). Kearns is not smooth (he is not presenting a false front). Kearns lacks gravitas (he does not demonstrate the sense of ruthlessness so ably demonstrated by the Brown administration). This means that if he is elected, he will come to the office with no obligations, no false promises that he will have to pretend to realize, no flashy programs that will waste more money and effort with no return, and no predisposition to corruption and graft.

This is why Kearns must be elected. Plenty of people are lining up to get their piece of the action by supporting Brown, thinking his election is inevitable. That’s fine. The corruption of the Brown administration, and the baseline corruption it exposes, is coming to light. If you’re okay with that, then repeat the mantra being fed to you by the politcos, and pronounce Brown inevitable.

While you’re at it, pronounce Buffalo dead.

Is crime down? Violent crime is up 6.5% http://blogs.buffalonews.com/outrages_insights/2009/06/violent-crime-in-buffalo-jumped-65-percent-last-year.html

Shitty houses are being demolished. But nothing is being done with shitty neighborhoods. Pull one shitty house down on a block with 12 and you still have a shitty neighborhood.

The mayor has no plan for the city. Mickey Kearns has a plan for… something. But neither of them is the mayor that this city needs.