Well you guys beat me to some of it. At least Lucca did. There is even more to it than that. Since I'm not black and don't live in Ward 7, I wasn't exactly sure how to bring some of this stuff up or describe what is going on.

It is unprecedented for a Councillor in a different Ward to go into another Councillor's Ward and organize people against a project.

As I understand it, Ed met with black preachers in the area, convinced some of them that streetcar people were preventing mass transit and bus shelters in Ward 7 with the proposal on Tuesday, and then held an intervention with a blindsided Councilman Pettis.

Unprecedented behavior and a complete break from all past decorum. Ed is trying to stimulate a mayoral campaign based on class warfare among other things imhop. He tried to use Tuesday's vote as his muse.