Does anyone have a list of corrupt WHITE mayors?

[brainshrub]

I just read someone make a disparaging remark about Asheville's new Mayor-elect Terry Bellamy.

According to this ignorant, racist bastard: Asheville is in for trouble because black Mayors are traditionally incompetent.

I'd like to respond with a long-list of white, corrupt Mayors.

Thanks-in-advance.

[SoCalDem]

1. There are probably too many to list

and because they are hooked up in the "good-ole-boy" network, unless they do something SO raunchy or blatant, they have their backs covered for them..

And their "crimes" are probably of a monetary version, which is actually a plus in their circles..They get an "attaboy", and are then groomed for higher office

[Rick Myers]

3. Most of them???

Politics EVERYWHERE is full of filth.

[phusion]

2. Asheville is awesome

Never been there, but I've heard a lot about its progressive politics.

As for the poster, I wouldn't waste my time. :shrug:

[brainshrub]

5. Normally I would agree... but I'm very patriotic over my city.

For some reason, I get upset when someone disparages my city. Even when a non-Ashevillian makes a comment about a Republican Mayor, I get irked.

Normally I ignore the inane rambling of racist conservatives, but this wanker just dissed MY MAYOR!

Dammit; Don't fuck with Asheville, or her leaders, when I'm in earshot!

:grr:

So that's why I would like to compile this little list.

[TheDebbieDee]

7. I've driven through Asheville several times on

I-40......I've always wanted to stop and take a tour of the Biltmore House.

Anyway, beautiful city nestled in the mountains, what little I've seen of it.

[goclark]

4. Tom Bradley was one of the best mayors

in my lifetime.

He was able to work with all segments of the Los Angeles community.

Atlanta has had several fine Black mayors.

etc, etc,

[madmom]

6. self delete oops

[MountainLaurel]

8. Not corrupt

But there's Phil Giordano in CT, now in prison for 37 years for molesting two girls under the age of 10.

[noonwitch]

9. Mike Steenburg of Warren, MI

He's a republican, too. He has been accused of looting the fire department's pension fund. A few years ago, his then teenaged son got into a fist fight with a black kid. The mayor intervened, hit the other kid and called him the n word.

What a guy.

[tuckessee]

10. All mayors are corrupt.

White, black, yellow, red, straight, gay, male, female - it doesn't matter.

Corruption is a pre-resquisite for any significant mayoral job, or any major political position for that matter.

[mduffy31]

11. Which Dailey would you like?

[Loonman]

12. Irish ones, right?

:evilgrin:

Lot's of those, around.

[kwassa]

13. Boss Tweed, of Tammany Hall, the prototype

The machine that ruled New York City in the middle 1800s.

[Xithras]

14. Seriously, most mayors are corrupt.

Nature of the position. Most mayorships are held by businessmen or activists who want the position to advance a particular agenda. In the vast majority of American cities, both large and small, mayors have little or no government experience before taking the job.

Most mayors have no idea how to run a city, they're elected to push a single position they're familiar with, and often have no clue how to deal with the 99% of the OTHER issues that come up in the governance of an developed area. In that sort of situation, it becomes quite easy for a company or group to walk in and "ease the load" of the mayor by telling him how to do his job, and paying him to boot.

To make it worse, outside of the largest cities, people running for city council and mayoral positions rarely have their backgrounds checked. In SoCal recently, a guy who was actually on probation for a sex offense was elected to the city council by a population that hadn't heard about that. I personally knew a guy who ran for a local city council position and barely lost...and he was one of the crookedest businessmen I knew. Outside of a single press interview and one public forum, nobody ever asked him any questions. His reason for running? He owned a technology consulting firm and wanted to influence the city to push contracts his way.

Luckily, my town doesn't have a mayor because it isn't a real town :) 15,000 people and we've never bothered incorporating...no mayor, no city council, no police department, nothing. Looking at stuff like this makes it easier to understand why our voters shoot down articles of incorporation every time someone puts them on the ballot!