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Bridget Maniaci must have learned self promotion from the Mayor of Hilldale
because that is what I observed as I watched the the July 7, 2009 City Council Meeting on Cable's Local Access Channel. I recorded it.
And I fast forwarded parts of the meeting.
At issue was the Badger Bus Depot being closed so that the owners can change it into a new type of business.
The owners seemed like low key people and it was clear that it was going to go through. And the Badger Bus will still operate.
So, Bridget Maniaci asks questions of the owners there are pointless. She wanted to know if they knew that that parking lot by the Memorial Union is going to be turned into something else. (Anyone who drops off or picks people up there knows that you can t get a spot to park there anyway.)
I was just baffled by the questions. So i was going to call her but no number in my phone book so I called the Mayor's office and when you call the Mayor's office the female voice on the phone tells you in the imperative ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictiona
I said to the voice on the phone that i know it s my responsibility to make it a great day. It's such an obnoxious and paternalist phrase, "Make it a great day" but it's also revealing of the Mayor's hand's off of those in need policies as he builds his kingdom.
Oh, your neighborhood is being inundated by crime, "Make it a great day."
I asked them to forward my message to Bridget that the question to be asked is, What constitutes the population of the 20 percent that these owners say still use the depot? I suggested that a survey be done because i am imagining it is the disabled or the elderly or maybe even people with children that faithfully go there.
WEll the show goes on and I was blown away when Council Member, Shiva Bidar-Sielaff
http://www.cityofmadison.com/Council/di
goes on to ask that pertinent question. She suggested to the owner that her perception of the 20 percent were people just being dropped off there but that that perception was merely anecdotal so she asked them if they had done a survey of the 20 percent.
The owner answered honestly that they had not.
I called my friend's voice mail to say, "you have an amazing alder"
Later she would go on to say that she felt that she was remiss and that the council was remiss in not having short term plans and a long term plans to find a place for the Greyhound bus.
She sees the whole picture.
Do you want to know what Bridget Maniaci went on to ask, she asked one of the people on the city planning?
Well, first she said, "I am sorry for going off on a tangent here?"
WEll, if you haven t said anything yet and you are about to do the tangent clearly you are not sorry for going off on a tangent or you wouldn t do it.
And the self promotion is about to happen if you watch Cable Local Access you can see it for yourselves.
She said, "I am curious" in my experience people who suffer from real curiosity never say, I am curious they just blurt out the question and because the curious tend to have this innate need for truth the listener picks up that the person is curious.
So so far she is sorry for going off on a tangent that she is going to go off on anyway which meanas she isn t sorry and then she is announcing she is curious
And folks here is the question she set us up for to hear, what is the history for the transportation hubs in Madison.
The receiver of the question looked at her baffled by such a pointless question but he hid it in his eyes and then smiled to say that he couldn t repeat the whole history but went back to 1990. He was kind to her, not sexist not patriarchal but kind.
then, she said what she set us up for in her announcing her sorrow for her soon to be tangent and her identifying herself for us as a curious person she said that she went to the historical society and she studied all the old maps and that she saw that they had been at John Nolen Drive and somewhere else and where the Badger Depot is.
(Ok when i moved to Madison in 1999 people told me that Soglin set up these city bus transfer points close to rail road tracks for the future of speed rail)
She is a tragedy. Where are her parents? She's clueless and District 2 has gone from brilliance to self promotion that doesn t have a clue.
We aren t going to get anything done with her.
I tell myself, "Doyle ease up, she's young."
But the fact that she took that lobbyist money to help realtors ruin our neighborhood so she could be elected disgusts me.
So I questioned myself, it was horrible watching what i saw. I thought of President Bush when he went to Ground Zero right after 911 and he put his arm around that fire man and he said, "I hear you and the world hears you."
And i said out loud to the TV "We are screwed."
He looked good.
The 2nd District is without representation. Look what she has written for District News
http://www.cityofmadison.com/council/di
Oh, and remember how she put on her flyer that she was going to slow down traffic on Sherman, since she has been there the police aren't parked to pick up speeders anymore.
So where do we go for 2nd District News to Brenda Konkel's blog. http://brendakonkel.blogspot.com/
Look at all the committee's she's been put on to help those Realtors who funded her small victory.
http://www.cityofmadison.com/council/di
The mayor's rubber stamp is District 2's representative.
But there were so moving moments of genuine care.
Tim Verveer was the only male who stayed present to the entire meeting. I don t know if it was because the Depot is in his district of if he is just that conscientious; he is on the news regularly about issues.
This woman cares, i don 't know her politics but she speaks with a caring concern not flash and hype.
http://www.cityofmadison.com/Council/di
This woman is well informed and spoke with a focus.
http://www.cityofmadison.com/Council/di
And this woman who the Mayor has banished to one meaningless committee and tells the press that she is ineffective registered a no vote.
She also has concern about the way lay people are appointed to the Mayor's committees that affect our town's future.
And she answered a question I was asking myself.
I asked myself, "Where is the Mayor? Does he go to these meetings or is this just a council meeting"
And in her registration of her no vote to every one's yes vote she said, I take this job seriously ... there are 3 council members not here and the mayor isn t here either.
So she answered my question. But it was July 7th and maybe they were on a 4th of July vacation.
August only has one city council meeting scheduled. I will watch that also. I am going to keep track of who attends and who doesn t.
The male council members that sit back and chat to each other while others talk are rude. You are there to listen for your district and your constant talking is a waste of representation.
The only other thing I wondered about is, why isn t there closed caption for people who are deaf and hard of hearing?
I put my closed caption on for my neighbors who sleep while i watch tv so that 's why i noticed it didn t have closed captioning.
because that is what I observed as I watched the the July 7, 2009 City Council Meeting on Cable's Local Access Channel. I recorded it.
And I fast forwarded parts of the meeting.
At issue was the Badger Bus Depot being closed so that the owners can change it into a new type of business.
The owners seemed like low key people and it was clear that it was going to go through. And the Badger Bus will still operate.
So, Bridget Maniaci asks questions of the owners there are pointless. She wanted to know if they knew that that parking lot by the Memorial Union is going to be turned into something else. (Anyone who drops off or picks people up there knows that you can t get a spot to park there anyway.)
I was just baffled by the questions. So i was going to call her but no number in my phone book so I called the Mayor's office and when you call the Mayor's office the female voice on the phone tells you in the imperative ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictiona
I said to the voice on the phone that i know it s my responsibility to make it a great day. It's such an obnoxious and paternalist phrase, "Make it a great day" but it's also revealing of the Mayor's hand's off of those in need policies as he builds his kingdom.
Oh, your neighborhood is being inundated by crime, "Make it a great day."
I asked them to forward my message to Bridget that the question to be asked is, What constitutes the population of the 20 percent that these owners say still use the depot? I suggested that a survey be done because i am imagining it is the disabled or the elderly or maybe even people with children that faithfully go there.
WEll the show goes on and I was blown away when Council Member, Shiva Bidar-Sielaff
http://www.cityofmadison.com/Council/di
goes on to ask that pertinent question. She suggested to the owner that her perception of the 20 percent were people just being dropped off there but that that perception was merely anecdotal so she asked them if they had done a survey of the 20 percent.
The owner answered honestly that they had not.
I called my friend's voice mail to say, "you have an amazing alder"
Later she would go on to say that she felt that she was remiss and that the council was remiss in not having short term plans and a long term plans to find a place for the Greyhound bus.
She sees the whole picture.
Do you want to know what Bridget Maniaci went on to ask, she asked one of the people on the city planning?
Well, first she said, "I am sorry for going off on a tangent here?"
WEll, if you haven t said anything yet and you are about to do the tangent clearly you are not sorry for going off on a tangent or you wouldn t do it.
And the self promotion is about to happen if you watch Cable Local Access you can see it for yourselves.
She said, "I am curious" in my experience people who suffer from real curiosity never say, I am curious they just blurt out the question and because the curious tend to have this innate need for truth the listener picks up that the person is curious.
So so far she is sorry for going off on a tangent that she is going to go off on anyway which meanas she isn t sorry and then she is announcing she is curious
And folks here is the question she set us up for to hear, what is the history for the transportation hubs in Madison.
The receiver of the question looked at her baffled by such a pointless question but he hid it in his eyes and then smiled to say that he couldn t repeat the whole history but went back to 1990. He was kind to her, not sexist not patriarchal but kind.
then, she said what she set us up for in her announcing her sorrow for her soon to be tangent and her identifying herself for us as a curious person she said that she went to the historical society and she studied all the old maps and that she saw that they had been at John Nolen Drive and somewhere else and where the Badger Depot is.
(Ok when i moved to Madison in 1999 people told me that Soglin set up these city bus transfer points close to rail road tracks for the future of speed rail)
She is a tragedy. Where are her parents? She's clueless and District 2 has gone from brilliance to self promotion that doesn t have a clue.
We aren t going to get anything done with her.
I tell myself, "Doyle ease up, she's young."
But the fact that she took that lobbyist money to help realtors ruin our neighborhood so she could be elected disgusts me.
So I questioned myself, it was horrible watching what i saw. I thought of President Bush when he went to Ground Zero right after 911 and he put his arm around that fire man and he said, "I hear you and the world hears you."
And i said out loud to the TV "We are screwed."
He looked good.
The 2nd District is without representation. Look what she has written for District News
http://www.cityofmadison.com/council/di
Oh, and remember how she put on her flyer that she was going to slow down traffic on Sherman, since she has been there the police aren't parked to pick up speeders anymore.
So where do we go for 2nd District News to Brenda Konkel's blog. http://brendakonkel.blogspot.com/
Look at all the committee's she's been put on to help those Realtors who funded her small victory.
http://www.cityofmadison.com/council/di
The mayor's rubber stamp is District 2's representative.
But there were so moving moments of genuine care.
Tim Verveer was the only male who stayed present to the entire meeting. I don t know if it was because the Depot is in his district of if he is just that conscientious; he is on the news regularly about issues.
This woman cares, i don 't know her politics but she speaks with a caring concern not flash and hype.
http://www.cityofmadison.com/Council/di
This woman is well informed and spoke with a focus.
http://www.cityofmadison.com/Council/di
And this woman who the Mayor has banished to one meaningless committee and tells the press that she is ineffective registered a no vote.
She also has concern about the way lay people are appointed to the Mayor's committees that affect our town's future.
And she answered a question I was asking myself.
I asked myself, "Where is the Mayor? Does he go to these meetings or is this just a council meeting"
And in her registration of her no vote to every one's yes vote she said, I take this job seriously ... there are 3 council members not here and the mayor isn t here either.
So she answered my question. But it was July 7th and maybe they were on a 4th of July vacation.
August only has one city council meeting scheduled. I will watch that also. I am going to keep track of who attends and who doesn t.
The male council members that sit back and chat to each other while others talk are rude. You are there to listen for your district and your constant talking is a waste of representation.
The only other thing I wondered about is, why isn t there closed caption for people who are deaf and hard of hearing?
I put my closed caption on for my neighbors who sleep while i watch tv so that 's why i noticed it didn t have closed captioning.
