Procrastination

Mayor Midnight Marty Chavez says he now wants an Arena downtown. That is good but a day late and a dollar short. While Marty messed around on the Arena proposal Rio Rancho started building their own out in the middle of nowhere. This is a perfect example of moving too slow and basing decisions on personal politics instead of community good. Now we will have two arenas within 25 miles of each other. Albuquerque could have had an Arena built already and functioning if Marty had not based his decision to delay this much needed downtown amenity on his personal dislike of the last arena developer. Probably, Marty was also worried about his election and didn't want to upset some people with this public works project. Having said all that, I heartily support Midnight Marty on getting this done at this point. Let's just do it in a first class way like we did the Isotopes Baseball Facility when I was Mayor. (And yes, I am still pissed he put his name on it.)

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam

It is not really surprising that City Councilor Tina Cummings lost her runoff election yesterday. She really didn't have her heart in the race and had opted at one point not to even run again. I personally like Tina a lot. She has a wonderful personality and a great sense of humor. I totally disagreed with her full support of development at any cost, but she was a good Council member and I wish her well.