I was calling one of Tim Grover’s constituents the other day who commented that he had written Tim off after voting for him in the early 1990’s because he ran for the School Board to save Central High. A few months after his election Tim voted to close it.
The constituent told me that he’d forgiven Tim so that when Tim campaigned for reelection in 2007 to keep Central open he cast a second vote for Tim. When Tim, who explains that he was simply being pragmatic because he couldn’t change the majority, voted to close Central again the constituent has found himself muttering to himself: “Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.”
