November 26, 2017

Broward Commissioner Tim Ryan

115 South Andrews Avenue

Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301

RE: “One people, one county, one Mayor” – Some comments on your full-throated cry for power, the power to do good for the people, especially the children, as written by you in your mini Op-Ed in today’s unlinkable Sun Sentinel.

Commissioner Ryan, 

Kudos and congrats on showing your true colors!

Before manatee suffrage, before a $15 minimum wage, before the end of teenage bullying and obesity, modern American Liberals want, lust after, must have, power. How else can they do what they know is what the people need, even if they don’t know it. 

This primal call for power, like the opening of a Howard Fast novel, “from the barrel of a gun” as was told to us by Chairman Mao, the great agrarian reformer, would logically result in you being Mayor, primus inter pares, if you will.

Funny thing about History. It is like an inconvenient truth, a big old turd in the punch bowl, bobbing and weaving like Brer Fox, and coming back and popping up at the most inopportune time. Broward County had a referendum on a “strong” Mayor a while back. Sheriff Kenneth the Short supported it because he wanted to be on the big white horse telling people what to do. [This was before he went to prison for petty theft. I am from Hudson County, New Jersey. He was not a stand-up guy.] The people said no.

Scratch a modern American Liberal and you get a power crazed Cossack, like you.

Kevin Smith