The Re-Imaging Of Ed Pawlowski

Local media Morning Call and WFMZ have been running pieces on the upcoming reentry of former Mayor Ed Pawlowski. The current article by WFMZ states that Ed maintains his innocence, but apologies for his foolishness. Actually, Ed did fess up a couple years ago, but blamed his campaign staff.

While the media institutional memory is light, I was there since before day one. I actually ran against Pawlowski in his first election as a long shot independent. The Morning Call never even ran my picture and excluded me from their debate, but this reality report is about Pawlowski, and more so, Alan Jennings. 

Jennings has been Pawlowski's champion since the day they took him away. Considering that every city contract was awarded on the basis of contributions to Pawlowski, instead of value to the city, I question Jennings' compass. Jennings even suggests city hall might want to take advantage of his experience when released. When you run a sacred cow like Community Action as Jennings did, such organizations receive little to no scrutiny. They are a vessel for people and corporations to feel good about themselves, and perhaps get a tax deduction in the bargain. Over the years this blog has questioned several of their programs. In my opinion, they bought people fish markets, rather than giving them fishing poles, There always have been sacred cows, and there has always been cynics...Blogging was made for us cynics.