Take another look at what I said earlier :

“I like the fact that you throw that PC BS out the window. Someone needs to stand up and speak the truth :)”

Turn it up…LOL…Happy Thanksgiving:)

“Heck, I just found my first gray hair last week”

Can I recommend ‘ Just for Men”…hah, hah…this is coming from a ex hairdresser…get over it…comes from wisdom and of course stress…

I’d go for Dave Ruttenberg for mayor, myself. But I appreciate your sentiment all the same. You’re absolutely right that all this is hypothetical, but I think time might just bring more folks to the fore. I look forward to meeting them if I’m right.

Sorry to hear about your gray hair. I know exactly how you feel. I just turned thirty about 3 months ago. Brutal!

Just kidding.

Rob, I would like to see you run because you are obviously more experienced and tempered than I am. If you decide to run for mayor then you would have my vote and my help. I admit that I have a bit more growing up to do before I would be ready for the big job. City Council….perhaps. Mayor, not yet Heck, I just found my first gray hair last week - sort of a depressing dose of reality.

Your theme song should be “Our Park’s in Jepoardy Baby”
Also, go ahead and support cthe casino, so I can save money and not have to drive to drop some change…LOL….ok, just kidding about that part

As far as qualifications, caring about the community and the ability to think analytically should be the only ones that matter. They aren’t things you would put on the resume. Only you know whether you have them or not. I wish you luck making the decision. If you do run, trust me, you will see me around and I will introduce myself.

Go ahead and run if you are seriously considering it. I like the fact that you throw that PC BS out the window. Someone needs to stand up and speak the truth

park’d: I think your concerns about the way the Park is governed are valid, and I share many of them. But it would be hard to reconcile your rhetoric here with a campaign that would be anything but negative. People want solutions to their problem, but they are naturally turned off by someone who harps on every negative aspect of the obstacles their town faces, regardless of who put them in the situation. Selling yourself as “the vote for anyone else” doesn’t help your cause either.

I hope you’ll consider running, because I think your intentions would be good for the future of the town, even if they’re not exactly telegraphed in the language of wine and roses. But moreover, I hope you run in a way that doesn’t demean the city itself, instead focusing your ire on the individuals who guided it to its current state and how to remedy their policies. Whether the town is worth saving is certainly up to you, because if you decide to run you will have an equal part in the debate to follow. And you will have to convince voters that it is indeed worth saving by unseating the incumbent council.

Whether the town is worth saving is unfortunately not up to me. That is something that we must all as a collective decide at the next local election. My negativity is also not directed towards the community as much as it is towards the illegal alien invasion and the lack of political leadership with regard to the subject. When you see your community trashed, your house value plummet, your commute increased and your local leaders call you racist when you ask them what they are doing about it then your first instinct is to flee. When you realize that it is too late to flee then you fight. I know that all of the LEGAL citizenry (what’s left of us) feels the same way. Some just vent over a beer about it and some vent on a political blog. I think it would take the work of at least 3 dedicated and intelligent individuals in this town who may even be members of this blog to remove the stranglehold that the current leadership has on this town. I think with the intelligence that I have seen on this blog alone that there may well be enough people here finally motivated enough to make it happen in the park.

If I decide not to run then it will be because I don’t think that I could offer anything more to the city than what they currently have from an experience standpoint, not because I am high-tailing it out of town though. That I can promise you. This town needs leaders that have experience in managing people; people that can make smart business decisions not based on what it can do for them, but for what it can do for the city. $35M elementary schools, 6500 new condo units, a casino and a brand new town hall and police station in the middle of a real estate implosion is not what I would call sound economic policy. How could a vote for anyone else be worse?

Since I don’t really fit in to any of those three categories, I don’t know how you would account for me. Perhaps you meant it in jest, but you won’t have the luxury of insulting hardworking families, who hold down jobs, endure commutes, raise kids, vote in every election, and volunteer in the schools and larger communities. You know, those of us who don’t have time or inclination to watch TV and drink beer.

While the thought of Rob running for office is interesting and even exciting, I am not sure how I feel about you Park’d. For months, you have talked about nothing else then leaving. Now you think about running for office. It’s Adam Larson, the sequel. He was there for, what, a month before resigning to move to the county.

You are clearly a bright guy, Dave, but your negativity towards this community for the past several months on this blog can hardly be ignored. Rob has always conducted himself in a manner that indicates he thinks this town is worth saving, for a lack of a better description. When the market rebounds, are you going to commit to staying and serving if elected? Can you say this town is worth saving?

Once again I ask, where in the world is the State Police and FBI??? This really really stinks.

And Dave R. as mayor, well, that would probably be about the most justice MP has seen in a while.

Dave and Rob on the city council might shake this town up some.