Posted by Nick at 11/27/08 07:31AM        Post ID#: #943

I sincerely hope that the chosen replacement will be a person with the time to give to do the job right, is a business-minded person, (as opposed to a bureaucrat), is not a political activist or someone who will further a "cause" with the prestige of the position, and not chosen simply because the person is a member of a minority group and the council want to salve it's conscience by "jumping on the bandwagon of diversity". More specifically, I would hate to see us join in the practice of reverse discrimination just to put an Hispanic on the council only because they are Hispanic. I hope whoever it is will be chosen solely on the basis of their qualifications to do the job, not just to have a token member of another demographic.

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