The Next Mayor

» Chron: Freshman Councilman Brown is a visionary with some blind spots (Kristen Mack)

Back from her Vegas Vacation, K-Mack's weekly indicates that the hateHouston.net folks might end up looking back on the Bill White years as something of a high-water mark ...

First-term City Councilman Peter Brown came into office with big ideas for transforming the city.

As an architect and urban planner, Brown had a vision for Houston that centered on creating mixed-income neighborhoods. He understood planning before coming on council, but not politics and how to get things done.

Now, as he runs for a second term, Brown is thinking about changing his position. To mayor.

There's also some secondary run in the column about Annise Parker's poorly-kept-secret plans to run for Mayor. Which makes this column rather curious ... why not at least cover the two a bit more evenly rather than focus on some banal editorializing like the following:

Brown suffers from rich guy syndrome — he's the only council member who has original artwork from Monet and Picasso hanging in the hallways of his home — which causes him to be idealistic and creates blind spots in his thinking.

It's stiff competition, but that may be among the silliest things Kristen Mack has ever written - Is that a Monet? Ah, well, you must have blind spots!!! Picasso? Clearly, you're an idealist!. Suffice it to say, but the causality - if not the point - is more than a little lacking. Peter is all of those things, but it's coincidental to his taste in art. Then again, I listen to Krokus & Stryper with about as much frequency as I do Bach & Vivaldi ... what's that make me?

That aside, there's clearly little to be anxious over when it comes to thinking about who the next mayor will be.