Labor opposes the new tax and says it will "roll it back" if elected, whatever that means.
Mr. Hess said he would never say that just "because the mayor is elected, whatever he says goes".
Washington DC is a place where powerful men and women can't seem to get along and their only agenda is self-promotion and getting elected or re-elected, whatever the cost.
The fact that Hamid Karzai was elected, by whatever dubious means, seems to infuriate western leaders.
As most elected officials – whatever their political leanings – do not like to have them around, there are not enough areas suitably equipped with the minimum water or health and safety infrastructures.
The September 10th Democratic primary will produce a runoff between de Blasio, the city's elected Public Advocate (whatever that is), and City Council speaker Christine Quinn.
In the case of George W. Bush, it could well have been, "Where else but America can a spoiled brat, substance-abusing, business failure whose own mother expected nothing of him get elected president?" Whatever Bush's subtext, he was able to project far more of that "in love with America" feeling than Kerry.
"The American people voted for him to be president; they didn't vote for him to come into this office with a whole bunch of conflicts of interest, they didn't elect him to do whatever he wanted," Mr. Painter added.
If that seems hyperbolic, consider that teen girls everywhere in America were told earlier this month by their president and elected senators that whatever their male peers do to them in their youth doesn't really matter.
Here are a few of the key strategies: View yourself as a portfolio of skills that are portable to whatever job you elect to move to.
