I'd rather fight than switch

Ed Cone:

"[Mayor Bill Knight is] the mayor of a sprawling, highly diverse city. His job is to make it run efficiently and honestly, and to listen to and lead all of its people. If he listens to the relative few who hoped his election heralded a new era of partisan local politics, he's doomed, and that's not good for any of us."

Ed is right. We want City Council to judge options on their likely outcomes, not on their alignment with some ideological prescription.