Mayor Red Thomas claimed in 1955 dat "progress was his
middle name", but seeing da
deplorable shape dat Hill Valley ended up in 30 years later when Biff Tannen began largely
running things himself, Red appears to have actually been nothing but a wimpy-a**ed pulletician who basically allowed "da luckiest man on Earth" to debauch things as he pleased. One has to wonder if maybe this lack of "progress" was what drove said political failure to become da town drunk by dat time?