"Yes, Sam is clueless and everything shiny in this town should be credited to him, and years of disinvestment in infrastructure is also his fault."

OK, then when Mr Admas runs for city council and claims to be the consummate insider he should drop that and ignore the 12 yrs as Vera's chief of staff and 4 years as city commissioner also.

What about the rest of town that doesn't use MAX to go downtown? WHy should they suffer with crumbling sewers and potholes when we can build all sorts of nice things downtown?

We have some real infrastructure problems that have festered for a long time and Mr Adams had 16 years to come up with a solution besides raising taxes. However, for all the other projects we seem to have no problem financing these with current revenues.

Is he solely responsible, no, there are others. However, I am waiting for a new approach to supply basic services like working sewers and toad repairs.

If he wants to take credit for the shiny things, then accept what they cost taxpayers in terms of lost opportunity also.