Wireless Neighborhood Participants and Organizations
Dear Friends of Technology and Neighborhoods,
I'm hosting a few meetings and would love to get your support and help in the promotions.
Monday, August 11, 6 pm, open planning meeting at Armstrong Park on 12th Street, South Side. Bring your own lawn chair.
Tuesday, August 12, 6:30 pm, OPEN Community Meeting at Armstrong Park. Bring your own lawn chair.
Essay contest for 9-11 begins this week. Details to be posted at CLOH.Org
On Thursday, September 11 from 10 to noon, Idea Session 07 concerning the pending YOUTH Technology Summit is slated for the east end in conjunction with a fatherhood event.
A Community Unity event starts at 8 pm on Thursday, September 11 at Club Cafe, 85 South 12th Street. High level offiicals as well as a recent songwriter of the year are expected. See http://S6.CLOH.Org. S6 =3D Sports,
Spirit and Soul Song and Story Summit.
In the months to come, the S6 event series can be constructed to raise money for technology and the co-op. I still want to talk with the finance committee about this.
Monday, August 11, 2003
Sunday, August 10, 2003
Cutbacks will affect all aspects of city life
Hi Russ,
I beg to differ. (PUN intended)
You don't need to spend a few million to get a $90+K per year job.
Both Bob O' and Tom M spent about $35 per vote in 2001 -- just in election efforts.
They both spent dearly in terms of stadiums, "neighborhood needs" (WAM, i.e., Walking Around Money), and other city-funded buy-offs for votes as well.
Face it, to get someone to vote for you on election day costs $0. Face it again -- who would vote for someone who leveraged a life's fortune (or many life fortunes) to get a job that pays <$100k?
The next Mayor's race isn't going to be like the last one if I have anything to say about it.
Let's NOT set up a prior assumption that you need a FEW MILLION to run for mayor -- or else it will be the same old story. I have more hope that that and will be even more outspoken when others around here soil our shared well of democracy.
So, do you care to re-state what you think so it can be unraveled in more specific ways?
> Well Wendell, if you can raise a few million dollars to back my candidacy for mayor of this backward city, I can assure you that MANY things would change around here, all for the better.
But short of those millions, I thikn it'll be the same old sad story around here. :/
I beg to differ. (PUN intended)
You don't need to spend a few million to get a $90+K per year job.
Both Bob O' and Tom M spent about $35 per vote in 2001 -- just in election efforts.
They both spent dearly in terms of stadiums, "neighborhood needs" (WAM, i.e., Walking Around Money), and other city-funded buy-offs for votes as well.
Face it, to get someone to vote for you on election day costs $0. Face it again -- who would vote for someone who leveraged a life's fortune (or many life fortunes) to get a job that pays <$100k?
The next Mayor's race isn't going to be like the last one if I have anything to say about it.
Let's NOT set up a prior assumption that you need a FEW MILLION to run for mayor -- or else it will be the same old story. I have more hope that that and will be even more outspoken when others around here soil our shared well of democracy.
So, do you care to re-state what you think so it can be unraveled in more specific ways?
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