Here's what I really asked Tim (minimally paraphrased):

"How do you reconcile your Green/progressive values with support for a city budget plan that proposes to cut police by 2.9%, and social services by 50%?"

Note the lack of any reference to "public safety", or specifically to the Fire Department. By very loosely paraphrasing my question, he totally avoids the fact that Tim never answered my question, and in fact, has Tim answer a question I never asked.

The Sentinel's desperate attempts to paint me as some kind of "fringe left-wing" candidate are ludicrous. I'm solidly in the middle of the progressive community mainstream - it is Rotkin and Mathews who are on the right wing of it... furthermore, it is a bizarre inversion of the normal definition of "right and left" to make it a "leftist" thing to oppose statist regulation of personal conduct.