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“If he hadn’t set the tone, then this wouldn’t be happening,” said Nelson W. Wolff, a former mayor of San Antonio who is now the county judge for Bexar County, which includes the city.
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“We wouldn’t have made the progress that we’re making on downtown development but for Mayor Castro’s leadership,” said Sheryl Sculley, the city manager.
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“The city has become a more marketable city for people out of the state than it’s ever been in its history,” said Graham Weston, a co-founder of Rackspace, a web hosting company that converted an abandoned shopping mall into its corporate headquarters in 2008. “I think the mayor was the first political leader to put us on that trajectory.”
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“It’s a blessing,” Althea Baines, 53, who has lived near the housing project for more than 20 years, said of the Eastside revitalization. “We haven’t had a mayor to concentrate specifically on the poor areas of the city like he has.”

 

LOL. I'm shocked the Times found people willing to give Castro credit -- despite no evidence.

They wrote a puff piece about a guy who's never gotten anything other than glowing press because of his party, and his personal narrative.

 

Pointing out a guy was in city leadership for more than decade and therefore might know something about housing and urban development isn't "strenuously" making a case.

Jeez, if it is, then whatever is the next level past "strenuous" is what you've been doing here.

Your whole "despite no evidence" schtick is pretty amusing though. I await you applying to both sides. It will be fun.

 

So Trump shouldn't get any credit for Carrier not shipping all those jobs to Mexico.

 

"Credit"? In this context, would that be another word for scorn?

 

Dean Acheson originally turned down SecState, saying he wasn't "adequate to the task at such a critical time in America's history."

 

and/or

 

"Scorn" and "disgust" would be my preference.

 

Ben Carson will be judged a great success as HUD Secretary by his party, most of which doesn't want HUD to do anything.

 

Words don't mean things.

 

I agree with you. Carson should say the same thing.

 

Scorn and/or disgust and/or credit and/or praise