It’s Bridgeport, Surprise!!!
Wouldn’t it be wonderful, and at the same time strange, if the move towards sustainability (in all things, not just green buildings and recycling habits) but fully including fiscal affairs met the death spiral of nonsustainability currently playing at the junction of municipal executive office and City Council, here in Bridgeport?
Walker is bright, experienced, accomplished in addressing the public and politically independent. He has appeared in person on several occasions already in the City. He has a real interest in public finance at the national level, but knows the interdependence of local and State budgets, policy, expectations and laws in providing prudent government financing. It would be surprising if he were not able to focus some attention and perhaps find some dollars for research into better alternatives and practices at the municipal level, and the structures that might support more positive results.
Stay tuned!!! This could be great news for our City. And for the sports fans involved (who may be City taxpayers), who love to play fantasy sports and argue about what the sports stats indicate, maybe there will be a big scoreboard posted downtown, in view of workers, residents and I-95 drivers, that would show the financial stats at any moment of the City’s Green Team. We have been waiting for real evidence of progress for too many years. Good targets for productive activity, great focused effort by the whole team and open, accountable and transparent process with a big scoreboard is what has been missing. Maybe our time will come with David Walker’s energy and experience!
What you’re talking about was the kind of evaluation and measurements done by CitiStat that so scared our currently elected City Mayor that he got rid of the “messenger” (Gomes) so he wouldn’t have to listen to the message.
I agree with you…Bring the statistics, bring the scoreboard, bring the measurements, and bring the open and transparent governance when you elect new leaders for this City in 2011. Don’t expect the current administration to handle this. They won’t.
But we can get this right if we stay focused on the whole City, not the personal wants of a favored few.
Unfortunately, there is no leader or follower in Bridgeport who can “Walker” for a minute in David’s shoes. Perhaps David Walker can give a few of his books to city decision-makers and hope he gets their attention.
*** David Walker for city Mayor *** Another good location for this wishful entity is the Bpt Barnum Museum. It’s full of old circus history “Comeback America Initiatives!” *** FORGETABOUTIT ***
Mojo may be onto something … a self-financed non-political candidate for mayor, like David Walker, who can expose all the shite in the city and present a plan to sustainability (a great new word). He/she could run as a Republican or even as an independent soul???
“Comeback America” has a lot of really good points. We had him on “Bridgeport Now” TV show recently. Many local issues to address: unfunded entitlements, transparency and accountability issues; Bridgeport is a target-rich environment. Finch was at his talk at the Black Rock Library. I wonder what he took away from it and if he read the book. I know Himes told me he was reading it.
Don’t just ask them if they read the book; ask questions about the book’s subject matter, ideas and concept. If you read the book you’ll know if they didn’t.
JGonzalez you are right. I actually have the whole book full of notes and broke them down into like 10 bullet points. Would be good idea to apply concepts to Bridgeport. I actually have a meetup.com account already, might be a good idea to take those ideas and get people together to push for reform issues in town. Prob is you need to get enough people together. The Committee to Ungag the Public was successful in their mission due to all the community that got together and their persistence.
It’s Bridgeport, Surprise!!!
Wouldn’t it be wonderful, and at the same time strange, if the move towards sustainability (in all things, not just green buildings and recycling habits) but fully including fiscal affairs met the death spiral of nonsustainability currently playing at the junction of municipal executive office and City Council, here in Bridgeport?
Walker is bright, experienced, accomplished in addressing the public and politically independent. He has appeared in person on several occasions already in the City. He has a real interest in public finance at the national level, but knows the interdependence of local and State budgets, policy, expectations and laws in providing prudent government financing. It would be surprising if he were not able to focus some attention and perhaps find some dollars for research into better alternatives and practices at the municipal level, and the structures that might support more positive results.
Stay tuned!!! This could be great news for our City. And for the sports fans involved (who may be City taxpayers), who love to play fantasy sports and argue about what the sports stats indicate, maybe there will be a big scoreboard posted downtown, in view of workers, residents and I-95 drivers, that would show the financial stats at any moment of the City’s Green Team. We have been waiting for real evidence of progress for too many years. Good targets for productive activity, great focused effort by the whole team and open, accountable and transparent process with a big scoreboard is what has been missing. Maybe our time will come with David Walker’s energy and experience!
BEACON2 // Sep 19, 2010 at 3:19 pm
amen…
What you’re talking about was the kind of evaluation and measurements done by CitiStat that so scared our currently elected City Mayor that he got rid of the “messenger” (Gomes) so he wouldn’t have to listen to the message.
I agree with you…Bring the statistics, bring the scoreboard, bring the measurements, and bring the open and transparent governance when you elect new leaders for this City in 2011. Don’t expect the current administration to handle this. They won’t.
But we can get this right if we stay focused on the whole City, not the personal wants of a favored few.
Unfortunately, there is no leader or follower in Bridgeport who can “Walker” for a minute in David’s shoes. Perhaps David Walker can give a few of his books to city decision-makers and hope he gets their attention.
The University of Bridgeport could be a great location to host this entity.
*** David Walker for city Mayor *** Another good location for this wishful entity is the Bpt Barnum Museum. It’s full of old circus history “Comeback America Initiatives!” *** FORGETABOUTIT ***
Mojo may be onto something … a self-financed non-political candidate for mayor, like David Walker, who can expose all the shite in the city and present a plan to sustainability (a great new word). He/she could run as a Republican or even as an independent soul???
“Comeback America” has a lot of really good points. We had him on “Bridgeport Now” TV show recently. Many local issues to address: unfunded entitlements, transparency and accountability issues; Bridgeport is a target-rich environment. Finch was at his talk at the Black Rock Library. I wonder what he took away from it and if he read the book. I know Himes told me he was reading it.
Don’t just ask them if they read the book; ask questions about the book’s subject matter, ideas and concept. If you read the book you’ll know if they didn’t.
FYI –
Thursday, October 21st 6:30 PM
David Walker returns to the Black Rock Branch Library for a presentation of IOUSA: Solutions, the sequel to his film on the national deficit IOUSA.
For more info or to preview the film, go to:
bportlibrary.org/blackrock/iousa-solutions-with-david-walker
Williams needs to listen to people like David Walker.
www .norwichbulletin.com/Opinion/x191997471/Ray-Hackett-Williams-ducks-tough-questions-about-state-debt
JGonzalez you are right. I actually have the whole book full of notes and broke them down into like 10 bullet points. Would be good idea to apply concepts to Bridgeport. I actually have a meetup.com account already, might be a good idea to take those ideas and get people together to push for reform issues in town. Prob is you need to get enough people together. The Committee to Ungag the Public was successful in their mission due to all the community that got together and their persistence.