First in a series.
In a single swivel, how do you recover from defeat and prepare anew for victory?
Chef Basil Kimbrew of the California Friends of the African American Caucus not only will tell you but demonstrate.
Mr. Kimbrew, sometimes scarred veteran of political battles, walked right past the spilled milk-tears when his designated candidate, Carson City Clerk Donesia Gause, lost Tuesday’s close election to retain her post to the mayor, Jim Dear.
Disappointed but scarcely discouraged, by 9:16 yesterday morning Mr. Kimbrew, bullhorn in hand, was making, he hoped, a tide-turning announcement to his network in stentorian tones.
The body was still warm, as a mortician would say.
That, however, did not deter Mr. Kimbrew from bolting to the front of the line for the next election before losers had a chance to weep and winners had a chance to exult.
Faster than a crinkly crackle of lightning on a sun-splashed morning – incongruous as that sounds – he declared that Carson City Councilperson Lula Davis Holmes, re-elected barely minutes before, would be a candidate for mayor in November to succeed Mr. Dear.
Really?
Which, in Mr. Kimbrew’s telling, was exactly how Ms. Davis Holmes responded when she heard yesterday morning that she was the first candidate for the highest office in the city.
(To be continued)
