(with apologies to Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)
In his August 15, 2007 letter to The Phoenix, Councilman Kirkner, writing as the “now former liaison to the Community Development Corp.,” responds to Mr. Cassidy’s earlier broadside.
Councilman Kirkner calls the so-called ‘memorandum of understanding’ between the Borough and the CDC a ‘repugnant document.’ He concedes that this document, which he had since May and which became public only Tuesday night, was not even shared with all of Council.
When did the document become ‘repugnant’ to Mr. Kirkner?
Did it became repugnant only when his role as liaison, created by the now-‘repugnant’ document, unraveled in public? How perfectly satisfied was Mr. Kirkner to serve as a cog in the back-room deal which he now denigrates? Just look at Mr. Kirkner’s reaction when Mr. Cassidy distributed his email exchanges with Mr. Kirkner; emails that Kirkner wrote in his official role, but sought to conceal not only from the public, but also from many of his council ‘colleagues.’
According to Kirkner, the CDC Chair told him the document was for ‘his back pocket.’
"For your back pocket" -- a really fascinating choice of phrase, isn't it?
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Kirkners words are loud but hollow. He embarasses himself but his behavior and words - "back pocket" - is "fascinating". Why would he be complicit with the clearly stated assumption that someone can "carve up" the town. The borough council president Messina decided that he himself could "carve up" legal and financial control of various pieces of the borough, and designate Mr. Kirkner to be some kind of viceroy. Now Messina says he is not going to appoint another emissary to this part of his kingdom. This whole thing would not have occured in open council or even executive session. How could Kirkner or any other member of council have even for one second participated in this? On this issue and from his other speech and actions he is clearly not walking firmly on his own but is in some way in "the back pocket" of the Bush-Rove-like crumbling (hopefully) Messina-Digirolomo Democratic machine. I guess it is up to the North Side to decide if they like what they see from Messina and Kirkner and want to continue to do business in this way. Maybe like Kirkner they can do the stinky thing while holding their nose. I wonder what they get out of it? They certainly are not getting the salary, car payments and comfy chairs and who know what else that best buddies are getting.
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