Push comes to shove

Took me a while to decide what I thought about Illinois American Water Co.'s 'push poll' concerning a potential sale/takeover of their franchises in Urbana and Champaign.

Then the Champaign and Urbana mayors weighed in Saturday with this lunacy:

The mayors of Champaign and Urbana came out swinging Friday against Illinois American Water Co., charging that telephone surveys the company conducted this week were "push polls" designed to turn residents against the possibility of the cities purchasing the local water system.
At an afternoon news conference, Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing called the telephone surveys "hardball politics" that Illinois American and its parent company, American Water, have used in other cities that attempted to purchase their water systems from the companies.

All I could think was, golly-gee mayors, did you really expect the company to say 'Here, take our company, please'?

Would you have? Of course they're gonna fight back. We gotta stop electing people like those two. For a supposedly educated community ....

And so it goes.