Scarberian
Active Member
Exactly! Not one of them have pointed out how shouting at piles of garbage doesn't solve the problem. Or how touring a TCHC building doesn't fix anything.
I'm stunned that none of the candidates (that I'm aware of) have proposed a customer service initiative in their platforms. It's the ONE THING that Ford points to that has popular appeal that no one else has touched him on yet. Any one of the candidates could blow him out of the water just by promising to review and improve 311 response.
You are correct that Rofo shouting at a pile of garbage doesn't solve it. Rofo touring and giving out fridge magnets also does squat. But here is where I think he's an idiot savant. He shows up in person. And he plays that card to the hilt and then some. The perception grows that he personally cares about the poor, visible minority, immigrants, and generally the disenfranchised and hard working regular folks.
Someone else could actually be working on the problem, actually make real progress, and RoFo could swoop in and take the credit. Even after voting against it. And here's the frustrating part. That tactic can and has worked for him, because he simply shows up in person. He'll work that retail politics charm overtime. His opponents and critics ignore that at their own peril.