The successor to term-limited Mayor Bob Buckhorn will have an agenda that includes continued municipal momentum, budgetary challenges, community policing, CEO/cheerleader dynamics and more.
And it’s a given that next up will also have a tough rhetorical act to follow. Think: “Bring me his head,” a serial-killer reference, although it might have applied to local-government-intruding House Speaker Richard Corcoran as well.
Buckhorn’s recent response to CSX over the doubling of downtown “quiet zone” costs–to more than $7 million–is just the most recent example of vintage Buckhornian rhetoric. “It’s outrageous,” fumed the mayor. “We can’t afford it. … Folks who now have a complaint about the noise at 3 in the morning, we’ll give them CXS’s number.”