http://www.detnews.com/article/20110...just-get-along?

Without realizing it, Finley has indicated what a big part of the problem has been for this particular Mayor and Council, and that is the fact that the focus has been so much on the five new council members and not the body as a whole. When you court just five votes, it only takes one of those votes to stray to put you into the loss column.

Furthermore, because they try to vote together as much as possible, when you lose one of the three leaders [[Pugh, Brown or Jenkins) you tend to lose the other four new members in most cases. Meanwhile, ignoring the other four members of Council does the Mayor and the City a disservice. He has a better chance of reasoning with Kenyatta and Cockrel than any of the other Council Members. A fact that he is not taking advantage of.