First in a series.
Karlo Silbiger – with some personalities, further identification is extraneous – reminds some people of a royally irresistible dessert being served following an uncommonly rich repast.
So tempting to step forward and participate –
- With a dessert fork at the table to digest and regret simultaneously, or
- With Mr. Silbiger,
- With Mr. Silbiger, to shake his hands and to criticize him simultaneously.
He is so young and he knows so much. He explains his stances so compellingly, engagingly that his elders – which would be a majority of the community – can be forgiven for envying, if not drooling over, his expansive cerebral capacity.
Presently a campaign consultant, and perhaps between runs for office, Mr. Silbiger was a chief strategist for the heavily successful Prof. Kelly Kent campaign for the School Board.
Mr. Silbiger is so established and so quickly recognized – as you would expect of someone who entered politics at the ambitious age of 11 – that he is known in headlines simply as “Karlo,” unlike 95 percent of colleagues.
Prematurely bald, his appearance, buttressed by an outgoing, accessible personality, gives him a sagacious presentment even though he merely is wading into his mid-30s.
Mr. Silbiger, naturally, is not without critics.
You know you have made it when a vocal anonymous critic acknowledges that the two of you are not that dissimilar.
And he likes you.
“I have a theory about why Karlo was surprisingly voted off the School Board a couple years ago,” the critic began. “He was very, very vehemently in favor of whatever he was in favor of.
“When you were on his side, it was great.
“When he opposed you, though, it was not so great.”
(To be continued)
