Thursday, September 24, 2009
Around Town / Politics Council Conservatives Gripe About Leo Waters
Posted by Pithmaster on Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Also receiving some pushback from Council members is Dean appointee Leo Waters, who has a deep political history in Nashville and has collected his share of detractors. Waters has previously served as an at-large Metro Council member and as a member of the Nashville Electric Services board.Waters grew up a scrappy poor kid in North Nashville, toiling summers at the Neuhoff meat-packing plant, working his way through college and eventually toward a graduate degree in criminology. He's a recovering alcoholic, and very open about that fact, and has helped countless other lost souls trying to recover. (He doesn't talk about that part.) He knows intimately how the city works and cares about it deeply. He's interested in historic preservation, social justice, smart development and would give a starving stranger anything he had. Yeah, he's a real jackass.
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This post and the article by Nate Rau to which it refers would have been worth reading if either had quoted or described a single objection raised by any councilman to Leo's appointment. One person commenting on Rau's story wrote, " Some council members presented great points against Leo Waters
being on this board." If that's true, there's no excuse for failing to include some of those points in the story. If it's not true, then what, exactly, is the basis of the story?
Darts to Pithmaster and Rau.
http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/craddock-criticizes-convention-center-authority-process
http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/convention-center-authority-appointees-confirmation-danger
Remember back when a Pith blogger penned:
So why is the Chamber [of Commerce] playing Switzerland [on May Town Center]? I’m hearing different theories, which may or may not be correct. But I'm feeling very City-Paperish today. So let's do some speculating, even though I may not know what I'm talking about.
That was awesome.
Thanks Mr. Press Secretary for linking me to those two earlier articles from Sept 9 and Sept 14. (Tell Pithmaster, too.) The first said, "Craddock would not specify which appointees he had an issue with." The second said, "... Leo Waters, whose deep political roots have left him with detractors, who are trying to block his placement on the new board."
That's it? The point of Pithmaster's blog is that---according to Mr. Rau--some councilman are unfairly opposing Leo's nomination. OK. Who are they? What are they saying?
I look forward to the next story.
Henry is right on the mark. A single vague paragraph from the article hardly warrants a post. The natural questions that arise from the post headline go unaddressed.
A cynic might wonder if the whole point of the post is simply to drive readers over to the City Paper.
Leo Waters has been a tireless public servant and citizen. The same cannot be said for Gotto and Craddock who act like spoiled boys.
So the point is that it's pointless? Actually I sort of agree, but I was more drawn to the pointless point part.
This story should read: Pitchmaster says of
Leo Waters "He's hot". The story reads
as if it was written by someone mother not
a news article.
The story should read: Pitchman say of
Leo Waters "He's hot". The story reads
like a press release from someone's
mother, not a news story that's should
give the readers worthwhile information.
What the story is saying is that Fatboy and RightWing, the newest nutjob crime fighting duo are running around griping about process, etc, when the truth is that they are too chicken shit to say that they really just don't like Leo. Perhaps they fear they would look petty, or perhaps they're doing what bullies do, back down or hide when confronted.
