I would say less relevant is a little extreme.
He was only against extension in its current form. Not against taxes period.
Kudos for having the guts to vote no when everyone wanted status quo.
Me thinks Brown will let it pass by ignoring it. He knows a veto can get out voted at this point.
It's too bad the council was more worried about expedience than the future.
However since we treat the mobility plan with such disregard, there is nothing a future council couldn't do to unwind this and start over.
Actually it is less extreme than what some of Joost's colleagues where saying privately after the vote.
Let's just say, if you spend two months on the stump, write editorials and do several television and radio appearances and persuade no one who has a vote to follow you, then yes your relevancy will be questioned.
In politics you need political capital. You can be absolutely right about what you want, but without any capital to offer, trade or solicit, the best of ideas can go for naught.
It is what makes politics the most maddening part of public service. The best ideas aren't always the ones that are done.
If Joost only made his case in the press and made no effort to solicit his peers to sell his approach, then he learned a hard lesson.
