Amy, I think Corr’s problem is the public perception that he’s Nickels’s boy. The point, regardless of the merits of (or the faults with) Nickels’s agenda, is: Do voters think Casey is independent or do they think he’s just Nickels’s Manchurian Candidate? That gets at the more substantive issue Erica brought up re: the legislative branch as a check on the mayor. Analogy: You dig Savage’s agenda for our paper, but you don’t want me simply parroting Savage’s agenda when we put the news section together.