egnorant wrote: Trust that there are people who actively seek to bend the local government to address their every whim. Often the language is left vague "to allow for different situations" without thinking that the words used allow the law to be used any way some devious jerk can dream up! Bruce
I was(reluctantly) elected to our village board this year. Not because I really had the desire to do so, but because I kept having people ask me to run, and if they felt that way then maybe I owed it to them.
It's astonishing how nearly every other trustee, and many elected officials from other communities I've met are there simply because they have a vendetta or seek higher political power.
Secondly, I've come to realize lawyers are truly the smartest people among us. Think about it: They are the ones who actually write all the laws and ordinances, then argue over their meaning and/or legitimacy, and finally either rewrite the laws or write new ones. It's a truly self-perpetuating cycle.
That's not meant as a condemnation of lawyers either, but both those observations really demonstrate how berkeleyed we are from a political standpoint.
