MEETING WITH THE MAYOR
The mayor spent an hour and 15 minutes with Pat, Jill and me. He opened by describing himself as more of an old-school conservative– fiscally conservative, small-government guy – but socially liberal. In all, it was a cordial meeting and a good conversation – Pat tells me it was far more productive than meetings with the previous mayor. I left feeling that the mayor did a good job of “handling” us, but I never felt that we were being showboated, talked down to or dismissed as a bunch of crazy progressives. I felt like he actually listened, and he spent time explaining his views. I don’t agree with all of them and I’m still a bit wary on the official explanation for term limits, but that’s where we are. On term limits : Ross said the rush to put this on the ballot was spurred by a “lot” of emails that came in this summer urging the council to do something about term limits and soon. He wouldn’t confirm the number of emails he and council members actually received (we’ve heard just 12 to