In this week’s Flagpole, publisher Pete McCommons urges Athens-Clarke Commissioner Carl Jordan to run for re-election.

I don’t know if he will. The last election energized Jordan. He believed newcomers Kelly Girtz and Doug Lowry would finally create a political atmosphere where he’d be more than just the commission’s version of Paul Broun: contrary, idealistic, uncompromising and on the wrong end of every 9-1 vote.

It didn’t happen. The commission is just as dysfunctional, paralyzed and easily distracted as ever, and has achieved virtually nothing it set out to do a year and a half ago. Jordan is now leaning toward leaving, unless Pete can talk him out of it, though I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s down at the Board of Elections as qualifying winds down, if no one to his liking steps up to take his place.