What Would John Mitchell Do?
Oct. 4th, 2009 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenWho is John Mitchell, you say? John Mitchell is one of our neighbors in our building who is running for City Council. His educational background is a BA from the world-renowned safety school, Fairleigh Dickinson, otherwise known as "Harvard on the Hackensack" - faaaaar from being an ivy league school. He's running for the Republican Town Council. He apparently is an advocate for the elderly, blind, and disabled, but just living in this building qualifies ME for that, too! He was honored as the Humanitarian of the Year - by some unnamed group or person - none of his accomplishments or honors are referenced in his advertisement to us.
I'm all for Americans striving for political office if they think they can make a difference. As Dwight Eisenhower said once (during his brief and unhappy tenure as the president of Columbia University) that being a good American should be paramount and scholarship should come second. It's cute that John Mitchell thinks he'll effect change, but most all politicians - local and national - can be bought as easily as those that already run this town. Sadly, Mitchell's platform sounds great: "With your help, we will bring transparency to town hall, reduce the overblown budgets, reign in the powerful developers, and return real jobs to [our town]."
He's been our building's board president for at least 1 year. Just so happens, I have noticed more rising costs over all and idiotic suggestions for new, useless expenditures in our building that don't benefit our living situation at all. I've also noticed more and more new people around - security guards and doormen - than in years past. Typically, such changes in our building were announced and new people were introduced. That's not happening. So, our living situation is getting more expensive and less familiar. What would make me want to vote for this guy?? The lesser issue is that he's Republican, but that, of course, is also no feather in his cap.
So, what would John Mitchell do? I think he'd get in office and allow himself to do, be, and say everything everyone else tells him he has to do, be, and say. That's what John Mitchell would do.
I'm all for Americans striving for political office if they think they can make a difference. As Dwight Eisenhower said once (during his brief and unhappy tenure as the president of Columbia University) that being a good American should be paramount and scholarship should come second. It's cute that John Mitchell thinks he'll effect change, but most all politicians - local and national - can be bought as easily as those that already run this town. Sadly, Mitchell's platform sounds great: "With your help, we will bring transparency to town hall, reduce the overblown budgets, reign in the powerful developers, and return real jobs to [our town]."
He's been our building's board president for at least 1 year. Just so happens, I have noticed more rising costs over all and idiotic suggestions for new, useless expenditures in our building that don't benefit our living situation at all. I've also noticed more and more new people around - security guards and doormen - than in years past. Typically, such changes in our building were announced and new people were introduced. That's not happening. So, our living situation is getting more expensive and less familiar. What would make me want to vote for this guy?? The lesser issue is that he's Republican, but that, of course, is also no feather in his cap.
So, what would John Mitchell do? I think he'd get in office and allow himself to do, be, and say everything everyone else tells him he has to do, be, and say. That's what John Mitchell would do.
