Announcement

I would like to make several statements about our city council. We had Mr. Bronson at the Bangor GOP meeting last week telling us about the dismal attendance at the meetings and he mentioned how the budget was changed by nickles and dimes. He mentioned a 75,000 dollar study, the fourth of its kind, covering the Auditorium project.
There were some unwanted cuts in other parts of the city, the merit of which varies. However, this was waste. Hearing Bronson refer to this 75,000 dollar project as more nickles and dimes irritated me. 75,000 dollars is 75,000 dollars. Sure, compared to the stimulus bill it seems petty, but we need to start rebuilding this country from the ground up. The lowest level is our city council. We need to eliminate the waste close the home and worry about the rest when we can. They always say make sure your house is in order before you clean the neighbors, so I'm going to help clean up our house.
The budget crisis across the country, I believe, could have been spared if the thirty years of waste that was just seen as another little project, money we can send for any purpose, was stopped. Right now with our city in the recession just like everywhere else, the money we pay to the city should be spent as wisely and prudently as we have to spend ours. Listening to Brohnson refer to the nickle and dime approach by our councilors let me know that something is wrong with the council. So I went to the meetings and my opinion was generous to their approaches. They speak of increases and cuts in programs without any idea of what half the programs do!
When Peter D'errico spends months pushing for the anti-car smoking bill we know our money is being wasted on the lights in their hall. The moral value of the bill is certainly high, but the necessity of the law, which the police, as far as I've seen, don't enforce, is negligable. We do not need these time consuming new laws against our rights taking away from the discussions about our budget, which is tossed together in a few weeks because the city doesn't give itself enough time to look at the revenues and the efficiency of the programs they go towards. Our city has several million dollars in its budget process, so this is a bit more than nickles and dimes and we need people to manage that money to the best possible impact for the city. I announce I am going to run for city council to give better management to the city and stop the wasteful spending in our community.