In his campaign to unseat incumbent Contra Costa Supervisor Supervisor John Gioia, (D-1) in 2010, candidate Mister Phillips has unveiled A Five Point Plan for a Better West County. He writes on his campaign site”
As your representative on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, I plan to:
1. Increase public safety;
2. Decrease unemployment;
3. Engage youth;
4. Care for seniors; and
5. Strengthen families.Although I am concerned about other issues, especially environmental health, I plan to spend most of my time working on these five points. I call the points the Five Point Plan for a Better West County.
Unless I’ve missed something, it’s not apparent that Phillips has weighed in on the issue of the day facing West County and District 1, namely Nevada Style Gambling at Indian Casinos at Pt Molate.
Supervisor Gioia has, MULTIPLE CHOICE, a) acquiesced, b) caved, c) hoped all along for—a $20M annual salve for the County to ease the pain of the vile and detrimental impact that a new massive gambling enterprise will drop on Richmond with a thud. Once that dust clears, at least the County will have its 30 pieces of silver to help defray the anticipated increase of public safety and health costs.
Phillips also states out right that he is going to duck the “Get Chevron” mob scene with its attempt to further shake down Chevron in the name of increasing ineffective government spending disguised as “environmental and social justice.”
Those are two pretty big elephants in the electoral living room to dance around. Lots of money and lots of district walkers and signs pumpers at stake. Can Phillips just say “No?”
That said, we’d like to hear more from Phillips as he fills out the bare bones of what “caring for seniors,” “engaging youth,” and “strengthening families” will look like when Contra Costa County government prides itself on being the 600 pound gorilla in the social service community that serves West County, and not very well at that.
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Phillips first came out against the casinos this summer. Go to http://misterphillips.com/blog/category/gaming/ to read his statement.
Lets stick to issues and not attacking persons
I am sure both Mister and John are great people who love their kids and care about their community
We all need to be better people given the times we face
your long comment was great thanks but your cutting conclusion was not necessary and cheapened your overall meesage
1. Increase public safety- The DA just received 700, 000 from the county’s “rainy day” fund to tackle misdemeanors when our school system is in shambles. The young men are raping the young woman, the teachers have lost pay and healthcare and class size has increased. If these conditions continue there will be a lot more misdemeanors to prosecute. We need to get at the root of the problems. Mister Phillips is being vague because he just doesn’t understand or doesn’t care.
2. Decrease unemployment- The President has not made significant progress, so good luck Mister.
3. Engage youth- First, we have to stop them from raping one another. Would you like to address that??
4. Caring for seniors- I truly hope you are not simply injecting this point for the sake of being inclusive. Saying you are going to care for our seniors and not doing anything significant would shine a bright light on your lack of integrity.
5. Strengthen families- Mister Phillips complained about John feeding needy families. He saw a conflict of interest instead of food on the tables of families in need.
Mister Phillips will not win this election. He needs to take this time to re evaluate his values. When he becomes a better person, he might be a better politician.
This is just another half-assed attempt by Mr. Mister to “play” candidate. the only time politicans are vague is when they are lying or have no clue what they are talking about. Platforms normally have ideas, Mr. Phillips, how are you going to do these things?
Vague is the way to describe Mister Phillips platform. To decrease unemployment, is very easy: cut taxes and regulations on business. To increase public safety, hire a private security guard at $50,000 a year rather than a regular policeman at $250,000 (salary plus benefits) per year.
Richard S. Colman
Orinda, CA
Dec. 18, 2009