This is a reminder that we don’t get to elect a Mayor in this town. That position is by appointment of the City Council who select one from their own ranks. Thus if …
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This is a reminder that we don’t get to elect a Mayor in this town. That position is by appointment of the City Council who select one from their own ranks. Thus if there is unhappiness with the Council member chosen as Mayor, all we can do in the short run is express concern to Council and perhaps suggest that Mayor should be more of a rotating position than the entrenched reality it has become. We the voters have not had direct say in who wears the silly archaic 19th-Century-relic black top hat (see: Disco Road re-opening event photo) since around Y2000, when direct election of a mayor was superseded by the current system.
It’s plain to see by the weekly headlines, that Mayor is more political than mere Council and in the interest of better democracy and accountability, this could be the right time to bring back direct election of the office of Mayor.
Forest Shomer
Port Townsend
