SO EX-CHIEF BERNARD PARKS IS thinking of running for the City Council instead of suing it. Although he doesn’t appear to live there at the moment, Parks certainly has a better-than-even chance next year of winning the 8th District seat that Mark Ridley-Thomas will vacate this December when he wins election to the state Assembly. (It would be virtually impossible for Democrat Ridley-Thomas to be beaten by a Republican in this district.)But I wonder if our just-departed chief has really thought this one through. Instead of being the city’s central luminary, as councilman he’d be just one of 15 elected representatives. And he’d have to work with his colleagues instead of trying to thwart them. Most importantly, when speaking in the council chamber, he could only talk for three minutes at a time. This could work dire hardship on the man who, just last week, addressed his potential future colleagues for 90 minutes straight about his favorite subject: himself.
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