Willie “Bae” Lewis Jr. should give it up.

His unrelenting quest to overturn the voters’ will and fashion the Port Arthur City Council’s structure to his personal taste undermines the expressed intentions of Port Arthur people who long ago cast their ballots on this issue.

It has become a distraction to his City Council colleagues — many of whom, admittedly, have their own personal agendas to push — but all of whom have more important and imposing matters to which to attend. (Anyone turned on his or her faucet lately?)

It has become repetitious and tedious to everyone but himself. Wanna know why eligible voters in this city don’t go to the polls? Maybe they’re so thoroughly tired of personal political agendas like Lewis’ that they’ve tuned their elected leaders out.

Lewis has been pitching his idea to anyone who will listen for weeks: He wants to overturn the stated intention of Port Arthur voters who decided in 2016 that they want to eliminate two City Council positions, one of them Lewis’. In fact he’s been pitching it to people who long ago stopped listening. That doesn’t seem to slow him down.

The philosophical discussions have ended. The political wrangling has ended, except in Lewis’ council seat. The votes have been cast and counted.

The two short-timer positions will go to the dustbin this spring, when Lewis and Osman Swati bid farewell to their City Council colleagues. We will thank them for their service at that appropriate time.

Voters weren’t confused about this matter. They voted with a two-thirds majority to bid Council positions 5 and 6 adieu.

Lewis’ own district was 62.5 percent in favor of eliminating his position. Say goodnight, councilman.

But Lewis can’t seem to abide by the voters’ lawful decision, overwhelmingly expressed. He wants the city attorney to write a letter opposing this lawful change. He wants voters to rise up and fight it. He wants his City Council colleagues, who shot down his latest effort 6-2 last week, to change their own hearts and minds.

These days, Lewis insists that the destined change works against Hispanic, Asian and “other” voters, that he’s fighting for their freedoms instead of his own seat. That position seems to be a loser.

We’ve seen no groundswell of support among those specific voter groups for Lewis’ come-lately posturing. Hispanic, Asian and “other” voters have not taken to the streets in protest, although all of those voters seem to be drastically underrepresented on this City Council, at least by racial composition.

Better that the councilman should bow out gracefully, that he should spend his waning months in City Council service seeking what’s politically plausible and pleasing to the city’s well being.

How ‘bout fixing some pipes?