Batista working his way up in the city isn't cronyism. He is by all accounts a capable and qualified candidate and deserved consideration.

Batista being handed the job because he's connected to and currying favor with the right people, who refused to publicly lay out a single criterion or consider a single other candidate for the position, is cronyism.

None of this is a knock on Batista. It's a knock on the powers that be installing their guy as CM and barely being able to maintain the charade that they aren't.

I never said anything to the effect of Russell and Colorio being the same, I dunno what the fuck you're talking about there.