First of all, thanks to everyone who has expressed support for me in such a capacity. I am honored. Indeed, I hope that one I day i can announce on my blog that I’m running for Mayor but today is not that day. My family and I have had this discussion in between Nutcracker practices over the past week and we have agreed that, whilst the family may be ready to march on Rome, our business is not.
See, the fundamental difference between the workload of the Mayor and a Council member is the Mayor has many more meetings in the middle of the day. I say “many more” as Council members have virtually no daytime meetings that they don’t have wide latitude with. My business, while moving forward and growing, is not yet to the point where I can devote a lot of daytime hours away from it. Frankly speaking, I’m not ready to do such a thing anyway. I’m a technology guy and it is what I love so I like the work quite a lot.
The health of the business is paramount. It provides for my family and, when I need time for researching Council initiatives, I can take the time to do it but that time is on my terms. This is, for now, far more comfortable for me and seems sensible. Thanks again to everyone who expressed support. I may be calling you in a couple of years!