But not mine. I think the reporter erred. Whyever would Gary Brown lend his name and prestige to someone else when he is announcing his own candidacy this week?

As to Sheila Cockrel - any intelligent young woman [[that you know from work) would seem to be a fine hope when you are surrounded day after day with the crazy old ladies who are her work-mates.

And as to Jenkins' best friend: it is none other than Christine Beatty. Jenkins is known by the company she keeps, and she learned a lot from Christine - like how to be kept pet of important people.

I imagine that she did a good job for Mahaffey, but she's only 39 and knows nothing of the world outside the City-County Building. Ken Cockrel was a journalist and a county commissioner. She is far more of a insular bureaucrat than he is.