Local accountant and Racine Taxpayers' Association member Jody Harding has declared her candidacy for the Racine mayoral election of 2011. She posted a press release on her blog, The World According To Jody, in which she states: “An attractive city is a fine thing, but this mayor seems obsessed with the outward appearance of our neighborhoods. While he is busy applying a coat of whitewash, the foundation is rotting.”
I applaud her entry into the field. I hope that more members of our community follow suit. Choice is good.
I'd also like to state that although I know absolutely nothing about Ms. Harding, that will not prevent me from being amongst the first to sling mud her way. Seeing her announcement in a blog made me start to wonder about the political possibilities of another blogger in Racine. "OrbsCorbs, Of Course!" has a nice ring to it and may be just the slogan to land me a cushy city job in '11.
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wow, think of the corruption, think of the muckracking that could be in store for us.... orbscorbs for mayor. Oooh, sorry, just got a willy shiver. ;>
A party on every block and an artist in every slum!
i don't know - i think it might be a pretty dreary angry place with no art & no parties.
what's your real platform orbs? how will you eradicate crime? how will you balance the budget? how will you fix everything you find broken?
i don't know jody harding either & i'm almost afraid to look up her blog-spot. but yes oh yes let's have LOTS of candidates for mayor! the more the merrier!
Art has existed in Racine forever - we need to import nothing. My ex-wife is an artist. She supported my worthless butt nearly thirty years ago with art, shortly after we moved OUT of downtown. I have many, many artist friends. They were involved in it long before Racine declared it was hip and they will be doing it long after Racine has forgotten about them. However, they are not interested in the ego games of the Official Arbiters of Art in Racine. Those yahoos wouldn't know art if it bit them in the ass, but they certainly understand money and subsidies and money and grants and money and pretensions and money and affectations and money. The best artists in Racine don't do shows locally because of the politics of art here. They are disgusted with the horseshit. Many of them do exhibit in Kenosha, however. That's another benefit of the stranglehold that DRC/J-Wax/Party-on-Becker/RAMAC have on the "cultural" events in Racine: Kenosha is doing great. The best artists leave Racine as soon as possible. There is a long standing tradition of that.....
Crime cannot be eradicated, but it can be controlled much better than it is here. A major shift in attitude on the part of city employees, especially police, would help: i.e., their job is what their employer tells them it is, not what they interpret it to be. Any lasting change would require a major overhaul of the courts here, though, which in turn would require federal intervention, I believe. Way too much corruption for decades to even begin to clean house there. I would do everything in my power to get the US Dept of Justice involved in prying the judges and lawyers out of the beds that they share in Racine. Nailing a few hides to the wall should shake things up (and, incidentally, stop the drug use that pervades our current crop of attorneys). Once the bad guys understand that, 1.) they WILL be busted if they commit a crime, and, 2.) they WILL be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, I think things would calm down in a couple of years.
Wow orbs, that sounded mayor-ish, and wonderful. Trouble is, it made too much sense. You would scare too many people in high places.
Well, the court thing has been obvious to anyone who has had any contact with the system. Remember the old Andreas Retaurant? That's where cases used to be decided before the show was put on for the public in the courthouse. I don't know if there is a specific loction today, but the point is that your lawyer and your judge will sit down and hash it out before you ever get to "court," your lawyer's influence with that particular judge being the deciding factor. WTF kind of way is that to run a system of "justice"?
As for the drug thing, well, doesn't everyone know that if you want the best toot in Racine, you contact an atty?
I would welcome anybody to run against the mayor. Personally,I think the mayor is a fool. Too many corny ideas and not enough focus on crime.
Orbs-great post! If you ever need a campain manager...
JT didn't even get her full name in the article until I pointed it out. Won't be long before I'm completely banned ala Orbs.
It will be interesting to see what she has to say over the next couple of years.
orbs - your platform pretty much covers everything & i'm impressed with your ideas. but what about the city budget? that to me has become the first & foremost issue - without a good one nothing can be done at all. and it's way bigger than the city - cuts in state & federal funding are hurting folks everywhere.
if you watch any of the common council meetings on car25 it's amazing how much it costs just to have the lights on for a softball game at lincoln park... you're right that it is all money money money - the city budget meetings are always the longest. hours and hours and hours of trying to get blood out of a rock.
sylvia: local lottery. Besides providing a monetary incentive based upon the much higher odds of winning a city lottery, there can be prizes like being mayor for a day or riding around in a patrol car for a shift or receiving health care like a city employee for a day. Auction off the Civil War soldier on top of the monument downtown (everyone ignores it anyway) and rent out the space for advertising. I said a long time ago that a huge can of Glade would look just right up there. Or how about a floating casino on Lake M? Really, if you're not locked into keeping your cronies' pockets filled, the possibilities are endless.
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