Kevin Johnson, Mayor of Sacramento?

I was trying to make clearer my reasons for not understanding WHY she keeps getting elected without getting deeper into it than I am comfortable doing.  I am not an intimate of hers, I've just moved around her periphery for years and know some of the same people she does and some family.  I'm not trying to defame anyone, or discourage anyone from voting for her should she decide to run for mayor.

Back to my original intention.  I don't think Kevin Johnson could win if he decided to run for mayor.

Should KJ decide to run, he could open the race to a whooooole bunch of other candidates who I think would crush him.  Including, possibly, Dave Jones, Deborah Ortiz, or Rob Fong (maybe even Sandy Sheedy) and any of them would probably beat him handily.  Remember, this election is strictly for residents of the City of Sacramento, not the County of Sacramento.  City voters seem to like Mayor Fargo a lot.

Because it's a City only vote, I have no more dog in this fight than Pookey does.  I was just expressing my opinion as was he.

Boy, I am re-closing this can of worms.  Again.

No offense intended towards you, Pook!
: )    

The most registered (and likely to vote) voters reside in the wealthier areas within the city: Land Park, South Land Park, Curtis Park, River Park, Elmhurst, and East Sac.

The City has probably picked up more voters in other areas (Downtown, Midtown, Oak Park etc.) since I was last a resident and politically active within the City confines, but I don't think there are enough newer voters to change the outcome of what the older neighborhoods want. And as those older neighborhoods get increasingly expensive they are (IMHO only) less likely to vote Democrat and lean more Republican.  So, fewer socially responsible bills will pass and God forbid spending any tax money on retaining the Kings.  

Again, my devalued .02 cents.  

As to the broader point about Johnson in Oak Park, I think you're talking about 2 different approaches to changing a city. Wellspring, the Jesuit Volunteer Core, etc. interact directly and with immediacy with Oak Park. Johnson's intention was to change the culture of the community and to do what-for lack of some less inflammatory term-has been done in dozens of neighborhoods in dozens of bigger cities nationwide (the Mission District, Harlem, Los Feliz) and gentrify Oak Park. That doesn't mean overrunning the area with what you refer to, rather misguidedly, as "suburbanites," it does mean creating a sense of identity within Oak Park beyond it being the part of Broadway that people don't cross into. In order to do that you have to create incentive for people to come, can you think of any thriving neighborhood in Sacramento that doesn't traffic in people not exclusively from that neighborhood? That is why the 40 Acres Gallery and the work at Sac High and even the much maligned Starbucks in reality are so important. Because they reinvent the image of the place. In late December Charles Barkley held a question and answer and book signing session at 40 Acres; that a person like Barkley would spend any relevant time in Oak Park outside of a photo op seemed an impossibility a little less than a decade ago. Remember, along those same lines, the surprise Nas concert at the Colonial last year? And I think that speaks to the broader concern with Johnson. Not that he hasn't been effective, but that he has been effective and it begs the question why has he not done more. The issue with the properties reported by the Bee wasn't so much what had happened, it was why it had happened. Johnson has a reputation, deserved or not I don't know, for being a micro manager with an inherent inability to delegate. The more responsibility he has assumed, the general sentiment has been, the less oversight there is in his myriad of ventures. Consequently the Bee story just validated that to dozens of detractors. To me that's the bigger question with KJ running for Mayor. With the school, his Oprah appearances, his non profit, does he have time to lead this city? And more importantly does he have time to lead this city effectively? That we need a big picture Mayor doesn't change the reality that Sacramento asks said leader to make a lot of small picture decisions. Kevin Johnson instantaneously leads a level of credibility to this city Fargo doesn't, but if Johnson can't bring himself to care about a stoplight on H Street, that credibility only goes so far.