Another man, whose letter to the editor criticized the choice of Alberto Melis as chief, called to say that his comments had been misconstrued. The letter-writer said he didn't mean to impugn Melis' loyalty, but to comment on the city council's lack of loyalty. Interesting train of thought. Methinks it's an interesting case of protesting too much. Sure, some people will always call for an in-house selection based on someone they know.
Nativism is one of the oddest of human conditions.
It's the type of thing that gets lots of people killed over little. I distrust you because of where you were born, where your bare behind first hit the delivery table. I can't distrust you about anything else because I don't know anything else about you to distrust. We are nothing if not a transitory people, a society in constant churn. We are all immigrants barely removed.