Parting Shots

"It all starts with Tatro," says Brown of his problems with council. "He spends his time trying to be the naysayer of what goes on in this administration."

He's already ruled out two of the four current mayoral candidates.

Tim Fleck

Brown backers celebrate the 2001 runoff victory (from left, Jordy Tollett, Dave Walden, Sue Walden and Nene Foxhall).

Photograph by Jennifer Binder

Lanier calls Brown "the opposite of Teflon."

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"I can't support Orlando, because he's not qualified to run, and I can't support Michael Berry, because he's not qualified to run. It would have been better if he had just taken the time to learn his way around City Hall before he decided to run for mayor."

It does not seem to have even crossed the mayor's mind that after the last six years, his endorsement just might not be the most valuable political commodity in town come November.