Media Suggestion to Mayor Duffy and City Hall Compliments of Monroerising.com
TO: All City Department Heads
FROM: Cincinnatus M. Rising, Media Consultant
DATE: March 1, 2008
SUBJECT: Not Contradicting the Mayor on Television
On February 28th, 2008, Police Chief Moore spoke on channel 9 and said:
“Some of the graffiti is art. But there is also the graffiti that is gang-related. That’s what we need to be careful about as well. And where there’s gang graffiti there certainly could be gangs,” said Rochester Police Chief David Moore.
The Chief said this after the Mayor said:
“This is a crime. It’s not an expression of art. It’s a crime,” said Mayor Bob Duffy. “Graffiti is part of the broken window theory. When you drive down the street and see graffiti on building it gives the impression of disorder, of a lack of respect. It drives down property values. It sends the wrong message to the people who might want to buy a house or bring a business.”
Mistakes like this are unacceptable. It might lead people to believe we aren’t on the same page on this issue. It might also lead them to think we don’t know what we are doing. If that happens than people might stop believing that our budget problems are cause by Albany not getting us our fair share of state money.
Then they might realize that we get more sales tax revenue than any other city in New York State. You get the picture.
Be prepared to talk about this at our staff meeting on Monday. A word of warning: Pattie Malgeri is really pissed.
Have a nice weekend.
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Cincie:
Sorry, but I’m going to miss the meeting. I’ll be on Plymouth Avenue attending an art exhibit hosted by the Plymouth Rock gan-, er, artist group.
Be careful if Pattie has a plastic tarp spread out on her office floor.
Mr. P