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Originally Posted by DMH
Will it take a new mayor and a new enlarged city council in January to finally take bold action to revive Downtown?
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Probably. City council is mostly useless without leadership, and Wheeler has been ineffective over 8 years. I see no reason to expect anything different over the next 8 months.
My favorite example of Wheeler's irrelevance was when he joined the 2020 protests to put a stop to the excessive use of tear gas by the police and the feds. Remember what happened?
He got tear gassed. And the crowd was thrilled.
Or how about when protesters started showing up at his condo building in the Pearl, demanding change. Did he address their concerns? Nope. He moved out of the Pearl.
He's ineffective. He's irrelevant. He's a joke that would be funny if he was mayor of somebody else's city.
2024 is a lost cause. I expect no meaningful progress in any regard. The good news is, 2025 is only 8 months away and I have high hopes.