Speaking to his motion for council to re-appoint three long termed incumbants without further interviews, Larry Klein said "Incubants have served long tenures but I do like the idea of turnover and different views from time to time...I think we need to find some way to get some new blood from time to time."

Stop the presses! Or stop, using the DVR pause button, your telecast of City Council and run to your computer and post a picture of Larry Klein, a propos of the incumbent candidacies of three Historic Resources Board commissioners, at 8:38 p.m., on Monday, May 2, 2011, because I thought, and you can check the record, that he said the words or phrases or short syllables of meaning “new blood…new ideas.” Whoa. I mean, Wow! Or “PA!!!”

Or as another Larry (Fine, or was it Curley or Moe Howard?) would say: Hey, I resemble that remark!!!

Even Gennady Sheyner of the Weekly stated, in the nicest possible way, that Larry Klein has been in our government “a long, long time.” Maybe I should not be surprised that Mayor Klein (once you are  Mayor you are always Mayor) thinks like this, or knows to say it once in a while, for he is a Cornell grad with a Harvard J.D., and a former Army captain. Or maybe I was just excited because a minute before that Council member Gregory Schmid was quoting “Democracy in America“ by Alexis de Tocqueville.

Or maybe “new blood” is Larry’s way of admitting that he is actually an Anne Rice character.