City council president Darlene Harris said today she is “not ruling out” running for mayor, in the wake of Mayor Luke Ravenstahl dropping his re-election bid this morning.
“I’m keeping my options open,” she tells City Paper.
She said one contributing factor to whether she would run or not was her family, citing the same stress of politics and personal toll that Ravenstahl cited in his speech today.
“I’ve been involved to make the city better for over 30 years and this was the first job i was ever paid to do it for,” she said. “I intend to keep doing it. I never thought about running for school board. I never thought about running for this position or running for mayor. But I’ll keep that option open.”
When asked about the two current candidates for mayor — City Councilor Bill Peduto and City Controller Michael Lamb — Ravenstahl said “that’ll change soon,” expecting more names to jump into the race and encouraged other candidates to do so. In fact, Ravenstahl said he had a particular candidate in mind, even though he hadn’t yet approached that individual.”
Fo Harris’ part, she admits that “it’s a lot of stress to run for office” and Ravenstahl was affected by much of that stress “coming up as young as he did. Sometimes it takes it’s toll.”
She said she hadn’t had time to evaluate how the city has fared under his leadership, in the whirlwind of this week’s speculation about his future.
“We agreed on some things, and disagreed on others,” she said. “It doesn’t make good government if you agree all the time.”
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If she runs, Harris and her loved ones would probably be burdened with quite a bit of distraction, campaigning for Mayor in one or two cycles. That’s always harsh. But I don’t feel like she’d inherit or replicate any of Mayor Luke’s nagging problems. Unless she does.
How does one run for school board and council without ever having thought about running? What is that even supposed to mean? Are we to be impressed that she stumbles from one position of leadership to the next without any forethought?
Hasn’t had time to evaluate Luke’s job performance? What has she been doing for the past six and half years besides lurching from one policy position to the next depending on which direction the political winds are blowing? The entire premise of this article is just silly.
I wonder if she will smoke cigs in the Mayors office like she does in her Council office. All against city code.