So, yes, elected official, I have been in your hot seat.
Yes, elected mayors are a good idea, cohering a city round its elected leader and forcing him or her into prominence as its champion.
In previous elections we have actually been allowed the luxury of listening to female politicians – yes, elected representatives, women with political power.
Forget the fact that the Republican candidate for president has benefited from a cozy relationship with his media "base" for years -- and yes, elect a Republican "change agent," who will then, unchanged, crawl right back into bed with that same elite, effete crowd the minute he sets foot in the Oval Office!
Will Davey, a 43-year-old Labour-voting chemistry teacher, said he intended to vote yes to elected mayors, because the city needs a "charismatic" figure to make sure it is punching its weight in Westminster.
Might I also mention that the black man got the right to vote (the 1965 Voting Rights Act that corrected the loopholes of the 15th amendment), and oh, yes, we elected a black man as President of the United States of America (2008).
Judges (yes, they elect judges in America).
When Aristide was elected, yes, I believed in him.
Since the current Fine Gael-Labour government – which is strongly backing a yes vote – was elected in 2011, around 85,000 immigrants have become Irish citizens.
If, and that's a very big if, any of the cities voting does say yes to an elected Mayor, expect howls of protest from those opposed to such a move, protesting about how such radical changes can be introduced on such a low turnout.
Given the spendthrifts, ogres, ignorants, panderers and outright thieves that actually manage to get into the positions where they can run the political process (yes, both democratically elected and self-appointed) we really don't want to be giving them any more power: actually, we'd rather like to reclaim much of the power they already have, most especially over the economy and finance.
