Turkey Attack! No Dinner Table For Us

Andy, I understand your perspective regarding the “turkey video.” It is not customary to see turkeys attack, but I guess by crossing their street, they felt they should have safe passage, just like the kids from school?

When this was shot, did the birds realize how close to Thanksgiving it was, and they might be assaulting a car that was carrying cranberries and stuffing with only one major item necessary for TDay dinner? I wonder what the turkey beak did to the videographer’s door? Any permanent damage? Something to call your insurance rep to claim?

We have watched the City Council reasonably closely over the past several years where they had a legislative assistant, Tom White. When Council President McCarthy in the final days of the Budget process eliminated all legislative employees (a real act of zero-based budgeting for the ghost employee and benefits), he left the Council formally resourceless (as well as clueless in too many areas). So he managed to insert a Charter change to provide the Council President with what seemed like a personal assistant who could be terminated without cause. I never heard the argument for this position, one of my problems with the Charter as approved by the Council. But because of the decisive (and unexpected) NO vote on November 6 on the Charter question, the City Council still is flying blind without formal assistance. What model of legislative governance suggests this as a sensible course of action? Who will speak up to secure pragmatic support in terms of personnel and training? If the Council fails to act decisively in this regard, pursuant to a well-considered plan and budget, they remain complicit with rather than contrasting with the Executive branch and unworthy of the description, “check and balance” mechanism. The City sorely needs courage, integrity, curiosity and competence in this review and monitoring process. Time will tell.