Wednesday, October 24, 2007

News flash: Reagan endorses Weisberg, Rinschler

It is considered bad form for sitting commissioners to endorse candidates for commission, even when those sitting commissioners are running for re-election. That said, it's hard to ignore the affinity between incumbents Tom McDaniel and Scott Moore, and candidates Shelli Weisberg and Gordon Rinschler. The four consider one another friends and political allies, and attended a fundraiser in their honor last Thursday. Their signs can be seen together on lawns all over town.

But as politics makes strange bedfellows, and since the Antis have only two candidates on the ballot this go-around, signs for McDaniel and Moore can also be seen on lawns of some Antis -- perhaps most notably that of Paul Marion Reagan.

Reagan managed campaigns for former (and disgraced) Commissioner Dante Lanzetta (whose lawn on Southfield is strangely free of campaign signs) and he continues his nearly decade-old pretense in which he claims to represent thousands of Birmingham resident from self-appointed positions organizations of his own creation. The reality is that Reagan represents only the failed and discredited politics of his former patron and such other Lanzetta henchmen as Gary Kulak and George Dilgard.

Failing to muster four candidates, Reagan and his Antis have resorted to endorsing McDaniel and Moore, and the two incumbents are laughing all the way to the electoral bank.

Which brings us to our news flash headline. Logic only dictates that since Reagan supports McDaniel and Moore, and McDaniel and Moore support Weisberg and Rinschler, that Reagan supports Weisberg and Rinschler.