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February 28, 2006
Roberts Rules
Gene Roberts has unparalleled credentials as a fiscal conservative and tremendous background in managing a large public corporation -- the city of Chattanooga.
That's Mayor Ron Littlefield on the man he has named to the Erlanger Hospital Authority Board. This is far from Roberts' first appearance in the spotlight this year; I haven't kept close tabs, but the former mayor has been a pretty constant media presence for about three months now -- at least since Littlefield resumed Roberts' old battle to nab the Tennessee American Water Company. And Roberts isn't the only former mayor to start showing up in the news: a recent TFP story on the Tivoli theater featured a quote from Robert Kirk Walker.
None of this proves a thing, but it does suggest a question: is the revival of these personas in city government part of a campaign by Littlefield to craft a new image? He hasn't done much in recent months to emphasize his election-era image of underdog and outsider, and the chirping crickets at Enterprise South haven't left him much opportunity to play job-crusading knight. But associating himself with Roberts and Walker would be a sharp move, allowing Littlefield to contrast himself against the developer mayors (Kinsey and Corker) and their possible excesses, all while asserting a deeper link with the tradition of public servants who used smaller government to aid individual citizens.
So is this the plan? Or am I making false links?
Behind the Scenes | By mesh | 05:46 PM
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