Monday, February 9, 2009

No silver bullet

Congressman Ron Klein says there is no silver bullet to getting our economy back on track. Read about this and more from his 2008 State of the District Address given on February 3, 2009.

In an on-line poll from Rep Klein being conducted now, the responses so far indicate that 95.65% of the people here believe that the state of our district needs vast improvement.

I would like to see our local representatives learn something from this last election. Communicate more with the public. Keep them informed. Value their opinion. Obama was a whiz at this and raised more money than anyone before him.

On-line surveys are a great tool but just answering e-mails from residents would be a start. I would like to give credit where it’s due by commending Mayor Clemens and Commissioner Mulvehill for being very conscientious regarding the importance of communication, at least as far as I am concerned. Now if we could just change those Comment Cards…