Thuy looks to me like a culture-war politician in the tradition of Richard
Nixon and Karl Rove. Parts of her district are going through demographic
changes that have created a lot of anger and resentment; Thuy gets herself
elected by giving voice to that resentment; she takes the side of the
("decent people"/"real Americans"/"honest, hard-working, long-term
residents"/supply your favorite epithet here) against the criminal
lowlifes on one end of the spectrum, and the smarty-pants elitists on the
other. The "criminal lowlifes," of course, are the new neighbors in
Meadowood. The "elitists" include the mayor, certainly, but also
bicyclists -- if you caricature us shamelessly enough, with sufficient
disregard for truth, we make a nice fat target for a culture-war
politician.
If you're up against someone like Thuy, I'm not sure rational argument
helps persuade her angry, resentful supporters that they really should
support someone else; unfortunately, if you point out the ways in which
she is incompetent and generally embarrassing, you just mark yourself as a
smarty-pants elitist.
Fortunately, people eventually get tired of divisive culture-warriors.
They got tired of Richard Nixon, Bill Dyke (remember him?) and George W.
Bush. Eventually it will be Thuy's turn, too.
I do think, however, that the city can hasten her demise if it does
something constructive about the real social problems in Meadowood. If
the old-line residents stop being scared of and angry at the black
teenagers who moved into the neighborhood, they may start to see Thuy for
what she is.
Matt Logan wrote:
> There is so very much wrong with Thuy, yet paradoxically, there are people
> who think she is a "Superwoman" and should run for Mayor. Don't believe
> me?
> Listen to these clips:
>
> http://www.loganfamily.ws/matt/sounds/misc/superwoman.mp3
>
> http://www.loganfamily.ws/matt/runthuy.mp3
>
> Her most recent accomplishment was opposing the Midvale/Westmoreland
> Neighborhood (In her own district) plan which in part contained a
> recommendation for more bike amenities.
>
> Not only was she the only vote against her own neighborhood's plan, but
> she
> utterly refused to work with the neighborhood reps (who had previously
> offered to consult with Thuy) in order to address some of her concerns.
> No
> fewer than four members of the council openly suggested that she needs to
> learn to work more effectively. Thuy's response was that she isn't a
> "political junkie" and doesn't have time to learn how to work effectively
> with the system. In closing, Thuy said "I am who I am".
>
> The plan passed 19-1, with only Thuy voting "no".
>
> The real shame of it is that Thuy's stated concern is that all these
> supposedly objectionable items take money and time away from fighting
> crime
> in D20, yet Thuy has failed to introduce and pass a resolution that would
> help her district fight crime. So far the press has declined to take note
> of Thuy's lack of effectiveness, outside of covering the story of the
> Mayor
> stripping her of all but one committee assignment - and even that was
> covered more from an angle of the Mayor being unfair to Thuy.
>
> I have been trying to fight the good fight at:
>
> http://www.thedailypage.com/blaska/
>
> to try to spread the word about the problems with Thuy. However, the
> administrator of that forum now routinely deletes my comments.
>
> If you haven't got the time to do anything else, I would suggest sending a
> letter to the editor, or posting on a blog. If Karl Rove can get former
> TX
> Gov. Ann Richards defeated by spreading the false rumor that she was a
> lesbian, I think us bikies could help remove Thuy by spreading the truth
> about Thuy's total incompatibility with city government.
>
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