I
am supporting Teri Jory as a thoughtful, energetic, and independent “citizen
representative” on the City Council. And I am writing to voice my opposition to
Mike Jordan, who has been on the City Planning Commission for many years as the
city’s planning functions have fallen further and further into dysfunction.
Mike
Jordan is a particularly bad electoral choice. The reasons for this conclusion
are twofold: (1) how could anyone who has been at the heart of the City
Planning Commission — the most dysfunctional city bureaucracy — believe they
should be “promoted” to a City Council seat? and (2) how are we going to get
more citizen control over the city bureaucracy, with more responsive city
council members like Teri Jory if we elect people who have been part of a
resistant city bureaucracy that needs to become responsive to voter direction.
Teri Jory is that “outsider” who will give us the representation we need to
compel the city bureaucracy to begin working for the voters rather than on
their own agenda.
Mike
Jordan has been an essential component of the dysfunctional planning process
the city is being attacked for by the residents as being overly bureaucratic,
unresponsive, and the primary cause for the destruction of State Street Retail.
All of that leaves me wondering why Mike Jordan would even think of running. It
is time to put our resident and taxpayer goals in front of the bureaucracy’s
intransigence. Teri will do just that.