I have seen the future, and the future is 4-3

Last night, as the new mayor demonstrated (volubly) he is not the old mayor, and Patrick wept while Wendy said her good-byes stone-faced, empathy for anyone not sharing at least 50% of her Viking DNA rapped tightly under a layer of cold till the end, the newly elected non-incumbents got a lesson of how things are going to be run over the next two years, courtesy of Kirby H. throwing a snit about what she wanted and what she deserved and how she will be happy to serve wherever she is appointed but she deserved to be appointed to Visit Estes Park. She will naturally contend that Bill B., as a newby, should not get what he wants, and, let's be honest, VEP is going to do whatever they want regardless of how many trustees fake monitor them, even if all six trustees were appointed as voting members, so the vote was meaningless, but set the stage for every future significant vote, and that outcome is 4-3. Grumblings will start among the three about why Marie C. is such a turncoat, but Marie showed her only allegiance is to Marie, and she will need to be wooed, and one of the ways to woo her is to bow to her superior intellect. Anyway, you should look up status quo ante, because those newly elected will have to be shown, repeatedly until the beatings produce results, that the change they thought they were voted in for was not the non-change the town actually, perversely, wants, until the buildings burn down around them. What the town needs is a good disaster, and then the jockeying to prove who really controls things will become evident. Luckily, albatross Frank attracts the very disasters that demonstate his ability to manage disasters, and he will usurp power and attract metal and loose car parts to him like a magnet as mayor pro-fessional during the crisis.