Hi, my name is Dave Crampton, and I’m reasonable.  Well, as long as you don’t ask my wife, I’m reasonable.  And as such a person, I have compiled a list of reasons (pun!) that would bar me from such a political office.

• I haven’t proven myself in politics.  Flip side of this coin: I haven’t been corrupted by politics.  Both reasons that I’d never get elected.
• I actually like living in Lansing.  I think it’s a good place to be.
• I have a family, which comes before everything else, including office.
• The only ass that I kiss is my wife’s, and that’s rare.
• Carol Wood?  Seriously?  (Obligatory baseless slam!  Go me!)
• I am The Man.  I am white, male, educated, and overweight.
• I have some conservative viewpoints. (Fascist!)
• I have some liberal viewpoints. (Pinko commie long-hair hippie!)
• I like riding CATA.  Bus crazy people make me smile.
• I see infrastructure as the basic building block needed to keep residents and businesses happy.  Having a meaty ideal instead of an empty sound bite should scare you all the way down into your booties.
• I am a nerd.  I am also proud of it.
• I abhor waste of any kind.  I drive my wife and friends nuts talking about reuse and recycling.
• I can use the word abhor in a sentence.

I’ll be expounding on these and others in other posts.  Anything else that you’d like to see in a Mayor but would prevent him from getting in office?