I'm feeling a little slimey. One of the strengths of blogging openly is the transparency that it creates. But I can also be a victim of my own openness and create unintended consequenses.
Last Tuesday night, it was clear that we had lost the referendum vote. I went before the press and followed through on my promise to support the outcome. To my surpise, and contrary to what I had understood, Bill Burkley and my other friends with the Petioner's Committee, Ben, Bob, Mike and Wayne apparently decided to take another tack and announced on my front porch that the lawsuit would continue. Because the surprise announcement was made before the press at my house I was physically attached to a position that I completely disagree with and I didn't care for the situation I was placed in.
The next morning, still fuming, I posted some thoughts on what had transpired. In that post I opined that either Bill or I would have to drop out of the race for either of us to have a shot at surmounting the deficit we were facing. I further stated that I thought that Bill was ultimately unelectable and this is where my openness had an unintended consequence. It was an unfair statement of a private opinion that I should have kept to myself because it is, of course, untrue. Bill was elected to Council twice and garnered 1,000 more votes than me in last week's primary. So if Bill is unelectable, what does that make me?
In my zeal to separate myself from the issue that Bill and the Committee embodies, I distanced myself from these "naysayer" friends with badly chosen words. For that, I apologize.
9:02:44 PM 
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