People like Neighborhood Advisory Commissioner Mark Winstead are in fact much more common in DC than the wording of this article would suggest. They perform the not very useful function of making the lying politicians (is there some other sort?) and their courtiers look good. Certainly one would rather have a beer with a politician than with someone like Neighborhood Advisory Commissioner Mark Winstead.
And what is a Neighborhood Advisory Commission anyway? It sounds like an institutionalized forum for busybodys and bluenoses like Mark Winstead to go about making life worse for those who have the misfortune to live in their vicinity, thereby replicating in a small, local way the service that DC performs for the country as a whole.
I am so glad to be back outside the beltway.
Hat tip: reason.com
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