Help for Mayor George & the Next Mayor of Wilkes-Barre: Wilkes-Barre Officials need to learn how to create a better city!

Wilkes-Barre Officials need to learn how to create a better city!In 2015, your author wrote a book titled, Wilkes-Barre PA: Return to Glory. In 2019 as a follow-up and as a primer for Wilkes-Barre citizens, I wrote a new book titled The Ghost of Wilkes-Barre Future. When I ran for Mayor of Wilkes-Barre in 2015, I was hoping to change Wilkes-Barre enough that the City would return to its prior glory. I did not get the chance as the people thought they had a better shot with Mayor George and almost Mayor Brown. I’ll let others comment on the wisdom of the City’s decision.I thought it would be much easier than it was to become the Mayor of my home town. I had lived in Wilkes-Barre all my life and I had just researched what would be the best solutions to bring to the City—just in case God decided that I should be its Mayor. Wilkes-Barre does not have to be as it is.Politicians had never moved the City off the mark. Like most in Wilkes-Barre, I was sick of politics at all levels of government. I built a catchphrase for my campaign and it was on the first page of the prior book that I had written: Dreams and ideas; plans and actions equal LEADERSHIPWilkes-Barre PA had twelve years of the same Mayor who was a terrific Mayor for the first six of those twelve years. It is tough to be a politician without getting sucked in. Having received 17% of the vote in the 2010 Congressional Primary v Paul Kanjorski, without a real campaign and no funds solicitation (no donations), I thought my formula might work for my City. I figured Wilkes-Barre needed a person who was not political but who understood the nature of politicians. I was wrong and I admit it. After getting just 5% of the vote of my friends in WB, I learned that I was big-time wrong. Tony George, a fine affable man, is now our Mayor and he wants to be Mayor again, hoping to be reelected in 2019. No matter who becomes Mayor in 2019 for the next four years, I know it will not be me. I will not run again for anything. I still want to help the City, but differently. I have decided to write this book for our next Mayor and Council so they know what to do to make Wilkes-Barre a better city in the future. Just being the prior Mayor will not do. The next Mayor must explain in detail why he or she should be elected. Therefore, Tony George and all mayoral candidates in 2019, will have to be more accountable to the people. They can’t hide and not ask questions as the last mayors have done. This book tells you what all the candidates must do to win the people’s support. Wilkes-Barre does not have to accept candidates who will not tell the people what they plan to do. Let them write a book to tell us all. Good idea?.