Cokinos

There has been a lot of whining in the media (KFDM, Enterprise, ETC) about Andrew Cokinos.
Some of the political types are calling for him to step down.

My take is not that he should step down, but his seat shouldn’t exist in the first place.

The argument is that he is sick and old and has missed more city council meetings than he has attended.

So what?

His seat is an At Large seat.

Everyone is still getting their representation.

The older folks tell me his seat is all about keeping the white folks in charge.

The idea being that just after a black person was voted to the city council, the white folks got nervous.

Since the city is mostly white, they came up with two at large seats to assure that the white folks kept in charge.

If this is true, his seat should have been phased out a long time ago.

As for Andrew… let the old guy keep his seat until he keels over or until the city does the right thing and lets each ward have their own councilperson and nothing more.