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From Steve Lackmeyer's coverage of Tuesday's council meeting reported on page 1C in today's paper: "A consultant hired to analyze the feasibility of a convention hotel downtown was hit with a blistering verbal attack by councilman and mayoral candidate Ed Shadid, but otherwise found a receptive audience among the remainder of the city council Tuesday." Quoting Shadid, "I expected a highly biased, poorly reasoned, poor methodology study, and I wasn't disappointed." (I believe that someone else posted this yesterday.)

It's not that Shadid continues to stand alone in his beliefs, but he also stands VERY alone in the caustic, obnoxious, offensive and demeaning way that he expresses himself. He may be right, but he's an a$$hole, and nobody follows someone like that.