Nashville Council Member Eric Crafton should have to go to every school in Metro and write on the board: "Mis ideas son malas para Nashville" 500 times. Dear readers, that's the closest translation I could come up with for: "My ideas are bad for Nashville".
Nashville voters soundly defeated Crafton's proposed Charter Amendment that would force all city business to be done in English. Everyone from the Governor to the Chamber of Commerce was against this mean and divisive measure. You didn't have to have much more than common sense to agree this was a terrible idea.
But, then, you just have to look at who brought this to a vote to discover someone for a talent for pushing bad ideas. Nashville Councilman Eric Crafton has made a career in public disservice out of them.
Back in the late 90's, Crafton led the charge against the idea of building a football stadium for the Tennessee Titans on the banks of the Cumberland river. The special ballot measure he was against passed convincingly. Crafton again had the wrong idea - you won't find too many people now who wish the Titans had gone somewhere else. I remember back then I wondered how Eric Crafton would have written Eric Clapton's song Change the World:
If I cold change Metro,
There would be no football in the universe.
You'd think narrow mindedness was something good,
Baby if I could change Metro...
May I suggest that the group formed to defeat Crafton's latest crap stay organized? Nashville needs to finally send this guy packing, preferably to somewhere where government business can only be done in a language he does not speak.
