Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Guv'ment Magazine: Reed among "Public Officials of the Year"
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:45 PM
In a brief, glowing profile, the magazine cites Reed's push to overhaul the city's ruinous pension plan, and his administration's apparent success at guiding the city budget from a looming deficit to more than $70 in cash reserves in two years. Here's a sample:
Reed is a Democrat, but his pragmatic, bipartisan approach — which he attributes to his 11 years in the state Legislature — has earned accolades from leaders on both sides of the aisle. Reed “genuinely puts what’s in the best interest of the city or the state ahead of politics,” Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, a Republican, told Roll Call earlier this year. “I think that’s really the defining attribute of a statesman.”
Governing's other public-sector rock stars are: Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe; Matthew Goldstein, chancellor of the City University of New York; Dearborn, Mich., Police Chief Ron Haddad; Judge Lee E. Haworth of Florida's 12th Judicial Circuit Court; Nigel Jacob and Chris Osgood, co-chairs of the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston; Utah state Sen. Dan Liljenquist; and Joanie Mahoney, county executive of Onondaga County, New York. As you can see, Reed is the only mayor on the list.
(Note to haters: For a pleasant change, instead of telling us how much we suck for blogging this, why don't you direct your comments to Governing and tell them how much they suck. Or, better yet, please explain why you think Reed is a terrible mayor.)
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I wonder if he got bonus points for employing his brother. Keepin' it in the family! Hiring local!
Here's what I have to say about this.
http://atlupclose.blogspot.com/2011/11/off…
I actually, personally remember a time when CL was not beholden to City Hall. I still like most of your reporting, and link to you often, but it saddens my heart that you've been bought off so easily.
oh scott. this is so cute! your passion for kasim is really sweet. do you hide the governing magazine under your mattress when you are done?
He is in such good company, what with Shirley and Renee -- his two fave girls -- as previous recipients. And look how they turned out!
Is this like, one of those ironical things, like nicknaming a guy with a tiny dong "Meat"? If it is, here's to Mayor Meat! May he assert his midlife crisis all over his constituents and public servants until the next election! Here that, taxpayers who paid for the recent helicopter shows downtown, and policemen who stand a fair chance of not getting paid for their participation in those "festivities," and certainly won't be getting their pensions back? You're all a big pile of nothing compared to MAYOR MEAT! : |
the main reason kasim reed sucks is because it looks like his head is inflated beyond proportion on that cover. seriously it looks like they took a picture of some roman bust. this is the depth of my political reasoning
kasim reed, Our Inflatable Mayor. down with love-doll reed!
Ok so what makes this mayor so great? Lest see he hired a police chief that was all but demoted by Pennington aftr conducting a nation wide search.....oh yeah and demanding that the committee doing the search put his name on the list. Got his brother out of trouble with the police TWICE. Had airport concession bids tossed out and restarted after "certain" company's failed to accurately fill out the proper forms. Bought 100k vehicles for him and his buddies under the guise of security while gutting the cities pensions. Hmmmm....what else is there.....more I'm sure but such a great mayor NEVER makes ANY mistakes.....
Anybody that holds shit together in the middle of this hostile, ass-backwards state deserves a high five.
Their "Rolling Stone"...hmmmh. Never heard of this publication! As many people have not...I would love to see their readership numbers!
1. SUV-gate
2. Norwood-hate-gate (let's make her part of the team, not with Lisa and Co around)
3. Eagle-gate
4. Crime-rising-gate
5. Transparency-not-gate
6. Ego-lovefest-gate
7. Pension-not-so-much-reform-really-gate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governing_(magazine)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone
I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who finds the side-profile shot a little creepy. It looks like Reed is trying to look like Dr. King.
"It looks like Reed is trying to look like Dr. King."
No, not really.
Update for ederrida---I doubt either Shirley Franklin or Renee Glover would be considered "his two fave girls".
Hit dog will holla. I can't believe Scott is getting so defensive about his man crush.
seems irrelevant to include anyone else ederrida if you want to attack Reed---sarcasm or not.
QO: My point is that the Governing Magazine award is bullshit. And the crap they wrote about the pension is a lie. God knows Scott would never point that out. The Mayor threw one of his hissy fits when Felicia Moore stood up to him and pressed for the compromise that was adopted unanimously. Baby Kasim wanted a hard freeze and fought for it until he realized he did not have the votes on Council to pass his version. It was 15 - 0 b/c of the work that the Council did. And if anybody thinks that Reed gives a shit about anything other than how many women -- on his staff or paid for -- he slam, bam, thank you ma'ms in the back of his tax payer funded tricked out SUVs or what his next political office is going to be you are either high or getting a concessions contract at the airport.
^^^ You bring up a good point about pension reform. Scott wrote a couple of posts about how the mayor's plan was about to pass and it was just a couple of disgruntled council members who were acting up. Instead Reed wasn't able to produce and his plan was going to get voted down all together until CT, Felicia, and a few others came up with the compromise plan.
Interestingly enough, Scott never wrote about any of that and let Wheatley write the follow up piece. It's a shame Scott has let his man crush get in the way of objective reporter on City Hall, because he did such a good job in the past.
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