Publisher's Synopsis
The Spirit shows future Wilkes-Barre officials how to create a better city!"Assure me {Spirit] that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life!"In 2015, your author wrote a book titled, Wilkes-Barre PA: Return to Glory. At the time, I was running for Mayor of Wilkes-Barre and I was looking for a repository for my most salient thoughts about the City. I thought it would be much easier than it was to become the Mayor of my home town. I hoped the book would do the job for me in getting all my thoughts together to present coherently. I also put my thoughts and free downloads of the eBook on my web site. 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.I felt that the City's return to glory needed to begin with dreams and ideas as opposed to a dose of extreme politics to replace the politics of the past. 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. There was little leadership in the last six years as the Mayor appeared more interested in gaining a state office. 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.After getting just 5% of the vote of my friends in WB, I learned that I was 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. So, instead of creating ideas that I can implement myself, 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. Therefore, Tony George and all mayoral candidates in 2019, will have to be more accountable to the people as to their desire to take Wilkes-Barre from the doldrums and make our once great city even better. This book tells you what all the candidates must do to win your support. Wilkes-Barre does not have to accept the verdict of the shadows.
