God save our city
This, a slightly modified version of the second verse of God Save the Queen, has been my prayer throughout this recall campaign. "Knavish tricks" is such an apt phrase.
Scatter [our] enemies,
And make them fall:
Confound their politics;
Frustrate their knavish tricks;
On thee our hopes we fix; God save us all.
Seems like my prayer is being answered.
Let bankers shake their iron rod,
And realtors clank their galling chains.
We fear them not, we trust in God.
Jane Jacobs' God forever reigns.
Sorry.