You don’t have to act like a politician if you have a solid record upon which to run. Unfortunately for Miller, she needed to tap dance a bit in her umpteenth re-election campaign. Actually, her campaign more closely resembled a third-grade class president contest. She flip-flopped on property tax reform about a dozen times, seeming not to remember whether she was for it or against it. (We’re still not really sure, even now.) She pronounced that her biggest accomplishment was lending her always-reliable yes vote to Mayor Pam Iorio on command. Despite all that — and losing the editorial recommendation of the Times to opponent Joe Redner! — Miller squeaked by for yet another term.
This article appears in Sep 12-18, 2007.