Perhaps I intuited that the move was a first step toward gentrification and the exclusion of the less wealthy. I conservatively favored small tax burdens, and the school move required a questionable bond issue. The skills required of an elected official sometimes include the ability NOT to state your thoughts or reasons. Citizen emotions are too deep and their rationales unclear. Keep quiet, vote, and breathe a sigh of relief.
Navigational skills can lead to rueful ironies.
During my sojourn, Gov. Ronald Reagan vetoed plans to construct a dam on the Eel River. During my tenure in elected politics, Richard Nixon signed more pro-environmental laws than any Democrat who followed him. There is really no interesting writing on how political ironies can be anticipated, or what is the most effective strategic voting in a democracy. Political irony does not mean all politically engaged citizens are Don Quixotes jousting with windmills. Recently, American pragmatism has blossomed into nightmare coalitions.