_"Paul, when you post such hostile statements as 'We have a completely deaf mayor” you lose credibility with a lot of us.'"_ - Douglas Card

Therein lies the problem. 

I've had a good window into Piercy's behavior; and as we're all familiar with, she consistently expresses concepts such as "inclusive," "consensus," etc.

But the bounds around how she will act are very narrow. If you don't mostly agree with her intuitive, usually fact-free, opinion, she will ignore you. Worse, she'll run over you, as she has done repeatedly, most egregiously with the Olive Plaza folks.
 
You may prefer not to hear the bad news that we have a "progressive" mayor who would act  so badly, because "deaf" is _such_ a "hostile" term.

But there are hundreds of people I've worked with who've seen the real Piercy and would express much more "hostile" (but accurate) terms for her. My credibility is well enough established that I don't worry much if expressing the unvarnished truth puts off a few folks.

-- Paul