Government as good as it gets.

Political veteran VB Price has written an insightful post on the NMI, link. It is fair to say, the man has probably forgotten more than I will ever known about mayoral politics here in River City.

That said, I am compelled to take issue. He wrote;

"Now we need a visionary politician brave and smart enough to help us think about how we’re going to cope with the realities of the future hard times ahead."

and I disagree.

I would argue that there is vision enough in the community, that we do not need more, And that there are those in the community smart enough to do the thinking about future hard times, that we don't need even one person more. I would argue that there is no paucity of good ideas or skill sets readily at hand, only that the city government does not make use of them. If government were as good as it could get, as efficient, as effective, as responsive to the will of the people as it could get,

we could have Bozo the Clown, wikilink, for mayor and it wouldn't make a bit of difference.


We have a mayor with everything we need in a mayor except, he doesn't have both the will and the ability to actually clean up city government.



There is not a legitimate agenda for the city that does not
move forward on the day we elect a mayor who will fight for
transparent accountability to meaningful standards of
conduct and competence, for politicians and public servants
in city government.

I am surprised that nowhere in his piece, did VB Price point
to public corruption, its costs, or its solution.




photo Mark Bralley