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Blackplanet member Jetmale was a candidate for Detroit City Council in 2009. www.FosterChangeN2009.info

Mr. Foster placed in the top third of all candidates (55th of 168) that ran for Detroit City Council. Mr. Foster having been encouraged that many of his tenets he stood for as a Detroit City Council Candidate are principles that voters have told him matter. Since they believe he has a relevant voice he has decided to unseat the current MICHIGAN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT 5 OFFICE HOLDER/ASPIRANT. His Mission Statement he crafted is To improve the City of Detroit with creative ideas, clever industries, and continuous innovation in the Federal Government by advocating policy and projects that will foster jobs and imrpovement in the city of Detroit and Southeast, Michigan.

The Vision Statement he has generated is Within eight years after taking office to have created over 10,000+ jobs. To have recruited Fortune 2,000 firms to relocate to the city of Detroit. To give better oversight of federal tax dollars allocated to the city for Mass Transit and Education. To use his influece as a Federal Representative of the people to help those who want to help their nation, State, and city. To improve the city's reputation in and out of the State of Michigan

Although the Detroit School Board does not fall under the Span of Control of the U.S. Congress the Candidate believes more could be done by this body to influence policy on the Detroit School Board and with the Superintendent of the Detroit Public Schools. For example, the Detroit City Coucil sanctioned a resolution to Washington, D.C. calling for the impeachment of President of the United States George Bush, II for his failed policies at home and abroad. If the Detroit City Council can write about an administrative process hundreds of miles away from Detroit why cannot the Detroit City Council sanction a similar resolution about its disappointment in the performance of the children of city of Detroit. Those that vote for elected officials are the parents of the students in the school district and therefore the representatives at all levels in the government speaks on behalf of its Constituents who have to be displeased with the recent performance indicators showing 51% of all Detroit Schools not meeting Annual Yearly Progress!

Didn't-Plan-Smartly (DPS): http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20081223/M ETRO/812230435 What DPS Should Do IMMEDIATELY I believe that a Charter-like environment is what is needed-not specifically charter schools-hear me out! When we blame Principals for failed principles at the building level as a result of poor performance by both students and teachers-it is unfair. Why? Because Principals can only hire who the district sends them to interview for openings-regardless if that person is a good fit for the building or not. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is good in some respects but too cumbersome in other respects. For example, NCLB is good when it calls for keeping track of failing schools that end up on the high priority school list (effectively failing to meet Annual Yearly Progress {AYP} consecutively). NCLB is bad when it says only a person with a teaching certificate is a "highly qualified pedagogue" Consider this: I have a BA Cum Laude in American History and Government. I am a member of the National Historical Honor Society, Incorporated. I have a passion for the subject and students relate to me-but I do not have certificate (because I did not want to student teach for free on borrowed student loans). On the other hand you have a teacher who is licensed but who really does not want to teach (maybe they are burnt out-still-they are ineffective), but they have a teaching certificate. Let's say further this person has a 2.8 in History or Government. The Principal is forced to hire the 2.8 instructor who cannot relate to students and who does not know the subject as well as the unlicensed teacher. President-Elect Barack H. Obama recently said starting with his new Secretary of Education-the former Superintendent of the Chicago School System who is known for thinking out of the box, that America must expect more and they will get more. Self-fullfilling prophesy is a real factor in education. Instead, we dumb-down to appease other teachers and administrators who have given up! In my PERFEC system: P.ublic E.ntrepreneurship R.e-inventing F.ailed E.ducation C.enters, the Principals would be given charge of their per student allocation with budget responsibility. Meaning, they can go with another food service contract, another maintenance and grounds contract, another security contract and hire, fire, and advertise for hiring who they want--as long as they keep the Board and the Superintendent informed about plans, forecasting, and budgeted items afore mentioned. If the building had a 1,000 students and if the per pupil allocation is $8,000 per pupil the budget would be 8million. This will empower the Principal not eviscerate them! Then, if the school continues to fail the Principal rightly can be let go. But to execute a Principal when they are sinecures and de jure administrators is well a formula for what we have. In my PERFEC system schools look like Charters, walk like Charters, but are not charters. No one is trying to break a Union up....the idea is "Public Entrepreneurship" as espoused by David Osbrone in his eponymous book "Reinventing Government" !

We need a foresnic audit of every department in the city government and I would like to see the city shrink to about 20-25 departments from the nearly 40 we currently have. Is anyone listening to Harris the new Budget Office Director? Cuts Have To Be Made to eliminate waste! !

Congradulations to the UNC-Higher Education System Campuses for being Recognized as "Community Engaged" (hint hint: we should be benchmarking in every sector!) http://webapps.nccu.edu/depart ments/PublicRelations/NewsEven ts/view.cfm?ID=4C05C46B-19B9-B 859-780A648CB189FA0E "CHAPEL HILL -- The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching today announced that eight University of North Carolina campuses are among the 119 higher education institutions selected for 2008 Community Engagement elective classification. The designation recognizes institutions that have internalized and sustained their commitment to collaborate with communities through teaching, research, and outreach. UNC campuses tapped for recognition today include Appalachian State University, East Carolina University, North Carolina Central University, UNC Charlotte, UNC Greensboro, UNC Wilmington, UNC Pembroke, and Western Carolina University ... In order for UNC to be the most engaged University in America, our campuses must continue to be responsive and valuable partners in solving real problems," said Leslie Boney, UNC Associate Vice President for Economic Development Research, Policy, and Planning. "The fact that over half of North Carolina's public universities have been nationally recognized for their commitment to working with communities sends a strong message for the future of our state." !

Be on the look out for new lighting technology by Philips: Lumalive(R) This new amazing technology allows lights to be embedded into fabrics! Say what! Yes, read on. This is a great way to promote business to business marketing for events like concerts, festivals, new artist launches by Record Labels and for concert tours --via street teams, not to mention ways to market services such as restaurants. This new technolgoy will light up the 21st Century and could go hand in hand with new Surface Technology being developed by Microsoft.

Imagine, being able to go into a restaurant or other service business and use the Surface Technology(R): but what brought you into that establishment-how did you know it had the new surface technology? A marketing street team outside with Lumalive(R) fabrics emitting light advertising the service or product inside, from up the street, and around the corner... Imagine you are at a concert and you see you favorite artists rocking the new Lumalive(R) shirts and hats displaying their album titles and personas....you purchase a Lumalive(R) product at the end of the show or event, to keep the experience alive...folks will ask...where did you get that from! Wow!

See their website for lumalive here: http://www.lumalive.com .

See their website for surface technology here: http://www.microsoft.com/surfa ce/index.html .

As you peruse my page you may pause the top play list dedicated to hip hop and gospel (If you have seen the famous oldie movie from the 70s "Immitation of Life" you may recall that the mother of gospel did a cameo in that movie-Ms. Mahalia Jackson). Or you can go to the bottom of this web portal and enjoy rare classical deliverance called "The Battle at Kruger" This is set in the wild. We see a Pride of Lions stealthly fall upon a baby Buffalo who is not fast enough to keep up with the herd. Then we see a battle over the prey between Crocodiles on the periphery and the Lions who are trying to block the baby Buffalo's escape into the hazzardous waters. Just when you thought the Lion would prove resilient--a team of Buffalo descend upon the Lions-a handful of Buffalos turn into a hundred and rescue the baby Buffalo who is wounded-who has been tattered with the teeth of the predators-but still survives!
Persistent Team Work, and Courage!ous Effort!! Also If you like South Park, The Family Guy, The Simpsons and Lil Bush-you'll love www. JoeCartoon.com. His site is acerbic, caustic, and humorous!

I attended Historic North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC. A city known as the Black Wall Street during the Harlem Renaissance.


My Major in undergrad was History with a Minor in Political Science. Currently, I am pursuing a JD (Juris Doctorate). I recently completed my MS-Management in late 2007. With these three degress (BA/MS/JD) I plan to segue into the post of a Chief Executive-Administrative Officer/Entrepreneur.


You may think this sounds all over the map-its not-you have to realize the skill set of an Administrator is the same if you are in higher education admin or healthcare admin: bugets, employee relations, institutional development, continuous improvement, etc.

I wrote a sequel to FootPrints in the Sand entitled As It Is Written; I have VA copyright on a logo for a sportsline I want to launch by Christ-Mas dubbed 18Aces, and a PA copyright for a play I want to get on broadway called "Defending Disseration." I would settle on it being performed at the Kennedy Center in D.C., and then on the silver-screen. I like hanging out in quality places, i.e., museums and national parks. I enjoy cooking out on the grill, reading, writing (working on several short stories) and getting involved in community projects.

I am temporarrily using my personal page on BP to publicize my firm's strategic initiatives. A seperate web page will be used in the near future by the beginning of the year that will be dedicated to these endeavors and a separate page will be developed for the City Council aspirations. With the right help-meet for me I will be able to accomplish more with the aid and support and analysis of my better half. It is so important to have a woman and wife and vice versa who can relate to your vision and industriousness to help build and architect wealth, and prosperity (health in the three quadrants of life: mind, body, and spirit ) for our children's children to come).

I have just launched a Limited Liability Company called the Citizen Group of Companies. Our biggest thrust thus far is a push into the housing sector by developing vacant parcels in rust belt cities like Detroit and Cleveland that are moderately priced. This company was created to provide living wage skilled labor jobs to help citizens gain equity in their communities and cities by obtaining home ownership.

I am also a third degree Master Mason of the Blue Lodge. There are no higher degrees than this, just more knowledge. I do crave more knowledge and will seek the Scotish Rite and the York Rite next year. Peace to all sisters of the Order of the Eastern Star! Thank God for the Shebas!

A Poem: I`m not a BlackMan:

I`m not a Black-Man, I`m a Nubi-an. I came from across the sea, to a place where they didn`t invite me. I learned-a new place, a paleface, about a brave people called Native Americans chased, until there remains, but a lil trace. (you can hardly find an Native Indian in the U.S.).

I rose early at the dawns, before I could yawn, I felt the sting of a whip-now dey didn`t have to even trip! So, I made cotton king-did my thing-not before I took what I needed and split the scene. (its hard out here for an ex-slave!)

I was inspried by the underground, freedom bound, told my people let`s run-I met Prosser and Turner on the run, we ran, and ran, and ran. Met John Brown at Harper Ferry that`s my man! White, black, don`t make a diff; if you down for the crown give me a hold-of the American Scheme, and Industriousness and Creativity`s golden gleams. (the protestant work ethic...yeah right, slaves invented the work ethic)

Emancipation came, but that Lincoln he was fink`n-reprimanding John C. Fremont and David Hunter (for emancipating slaves before Lincoln did: Fremont in 1861 and Hunter in 1862 and Lincoln in 1863-know your history)-stinkin`-So, I present to the W.hole W.ide W.orld a few Afrikan American study facts.

Remember the spirit of those that ran, and never forget those that caught a bullet or, whose `Red Record` ran, from the diobolical rope-treatment of the MAN!


I am a Scorpio. I am 170cm. I weigh 83 kgs. (for those who are metric convesion challenged that's 5'7 and 181lbs.). I believe in taking care of my body even though the Word says that "bodily exercise profiteth little"---because this is the temple wherein God dwells and to be a good stewart of it is my first and reasonable service! I like to work out. I am a fan of fitness.

Stuppid in America: How We Cheat Our Kids

"A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun." Bo Didley, on not being paid any royalties and being robbed of his wealth by corporate greed!

--------- Greetings (313)DET-ROIT (a moniker for the City of Detroit)! I have a serious looking photo because the city of Detroit's condition is no laughing matter. Do you want a photo that symbolizes gravitas or one where it looks like a person will say yes to everything! ______________________________ ____ On this site you will be able to navigate various pages; About US, Services, and our Contact page. These pages should offer you a panoply of information about the candidate's stance on policies and programs affecting the Detroit City Council and the City at-large. You will notice different logos or pictures of Detroit symbols because the Candidate has a lot of Detroit love for his city and is proud of its institutions! First and foremost no side of Detroit is better than the whole from which the side comes. So, the Westside is not better than the Eastside and the Eastside is not worse than the Westside. Do The Math: (3+1+3)=7mile [an equation created by Mr. Foster to symbolize a favorite avenue in Detroit, and correlate that to the individual numbers in the area code] There is only one side, either East or West, and that is the D-side or Detroit Side of things. One City! One (Neighbor)hood! One Community! _________________________ Mr. Foster is a Thomas M. Cooley, Law School Aspirant in 2009. _________________________ What prompted Burgess Foster to "throw his name in the hat" for Detroit City Council 2009 race was; the quasi negligence of the current Council to "aggressively" represent the citizens as the Detroit City Charter stipulates in the "Declaration of Rights" (Pt. II, Home Rule Charter). Instead the Council, as a group, and individuals in particular, has performed in a lack-luster way voting recently to keep Detroiters from voting for Council by Ward or District, by a Detroit City Council vote of 4/3 despite a formidable petition drive by Detroiters proposing Districts or Wards. A.) http://www.detroitnews.com/app s/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200811 19/METRO01/811190384/1408/LOCA L Mr. Foster believes there is "Something Special About Detroit's" potential and future and in many ways its' past. Detroit was home to men like President U.S. Grant (b. 1822- 1885) prior to the Civil War. And men like U.S. Senator Zachariah Chandler (b. 1813-1879), shortly after the founding of Michigan as a State, he settled here. Zachariah, whose last name gives the City of Detroit-Chandler Park and Chandler Drive on the Eastside, was one of the Radical Republicans who was a devout Union man during the Civil War. A man who personally fought to end Slavery, and is considered by Mr. Foster to be a humanitarian as a "Station Manager" on the underground railroad, and furthermore for his beliefs on African American equality-both socially and legally! He was present with Benjamin Wade (b. 1878-1878) of Ohio at the Battle of Bull Run. Some even claim he is the reason why the North and the South went to War (instigated by the infamous Blood Letter wherein he expressed vituperation about the South's treason) because he was tired of the Compromises of 1820, 1850, and 1854. He was a man that stood for Change when it was widely unpopular like Barack Obama did in 2008! How many of you in Detroit have heard the expression "In this Corner, the Heavy Weight Champion of the World ... Well, these words which describe the elite of the boxing world can also apply to our city. Detroit-a champion- who has been knocked down, but not out! A champion city that seems to rise to the occasion (or from the ashes as our city motto suggests), to defeat the naysayers and detractors who believe that Detroit cannot effectively manage public affairs efficiently, and as as a result claim Detroit is down for the count! As Mr. Foster petitioned across the (313)DET-ROIT canvassing for the nearly 500 signatures he would need to secure a nomination to the ballot N 2009. He spoke to the City! He encountered everyday people who expressed their disdain for the current public managers on the Detroit City Council and in the City Executive's Office from 2001-2008. They shared disappointment in the former Mayor who was gifted with a great number of skill sets, but who had to resign due to the Court of Public Opinion about his management decisions while residing at the Manoogian Mansion. Citizens expressed their contempt also in the current Mayor for keeping over 70 of the ousted Mayor's cronies. B.)http://www.detnews.com/apps /pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2008092 6/METRO/809260427 C.) http://www.freep.com/article/9 9999999/NEWS01/80124052&te mplate=theme&theme=KILPATR ICK012008 D.) http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20080904/M ETRO/809040440 Hundreds of petitioners of his ballot nomination were embarrassed at Detroit being enmeshed in Political imbroglio and scandalous brouhaha that permeated the city and reached network news coverage coast to coast! The hoi polloi, nationwide, was stunned at the Motor City because of the enormity of corruption that Motown seemed to condone by not recalling these elected officials. Sam Riddle, former Chief of Staff to Monica Conyers stated "The only difference between Detroit and Third World nations in terms of corruption is that there are no goats in the streets in Detroit[!]" E.) http://www.detroitnews.com/app s/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/999999 99/METRO/80708001/1008/OPINION 01&template=theme&them e=METRO-CITY-COUNCIL Kenneth Cockrel, Jr's (former President of the Detroit City Council, and current Mayor as of 12-14-2008) Chief of Staff had to resign due to defalcation (bribery). F.) http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20080701/M ETRO01/807010359 The current President of the Detroit City Council Monica Conyers has been involved in an array of disgraceful run-ins afoul of the law, ranging from bar fights to embarrassing the city in Denver, Colorado with an explosion of temper and attitude that is not befitting a Council Person or, the wife of a U.S. Congressman (John Conyers) during the past Democratic National Convention: G.) (http://www.detnews.com/apps/p bcs.dll/article?AID=/20080827/ POLITICS01/808270415&imw=Y ) Kevin Sack of the New York Times led with a story out of Nashville, TN in the Detroit News about how rural areas-to wit-Southern States were getting better healthcare. This is in keeping with President-Elect Barack H. Obama's plea to develop more personalized medicine that uses a plan of care that looks at the patient holistically. Community Health Clinics have been providing urgent primary care where the indigent or the under-insured or the uninsured have not been able to get such care. "For those in poor urban neighborhoods ... the clinics are often the only dependable providers of basic services like prenatal care, childhood immunizations, asthma treatments, cancer screenings and tests for sexually transmitted diseases." Detroit, then would qualify for federal dollars to enlarge and update its new Community Health Center known as Herman Keifer.This might be a way to help stimulate the economy. Detroit could raze the facility and create hundreds of jobs in construction to build the new facility that will take the city into the next century. I would propose naming the new facility the "Keifer-Vincent Health Clinic." Dr. Charles Vincent being one of the first African American Obstetricians in the City who who worked at Hutzle Hospital, who incidentally delivered this candidate on his first birth date. The facility's mission as a communicable disease clinic and primary care facility warrants that an investment be made in Detroit's infrastructure to service this grave need. Imagine a state of the art facility where the indigent could get dental care, annual health screenings, and pharmaceuticals at rock bottom prices they could afford this with small co-pays of less than $20.00 if you are on welfare (we could even partner with a Michigan based pharmaceutical provider to manage our pharmaceutical services, like CVS(TM)). The healthcare sector by the way is one of the fastest growing employment sectors in the USA! H.) (http://www.detnews.com/apps/p bcs.dll/article?AID=/20081226/ POLITICS/812260379/1408/LOCAL) __________________________ A student at Wayne State University, and a supporter of Mr. Foster's candidacy stated "I wonder why in the last 30 years we don't have a Wal Mart(TM) or Sams Club(TM) or Costcos(TM) or a Fred Meijers(TM) in Detroit. Meijers is headquartered in Michigan and yet the largest city in Michigan-Detroit-does not have one. Motown is the 10th largest city in the nation. I agree with Mr. Burgess Foster, we need to have our own everything like Warren and Sterling Heights, Michigan in Macomb County and Troy and Southfield, Michigan in Oakland County." Cheynise Miller, another supporter of Mr. Foster's petition, echoed the sentiment "It seems L. Brooks Patterson said recently that Oakland County is not Detroit's ATM, but it seems that Detroit supports Oakland and Macomb Counties with our earnings towards retail purchases (and not vice versa), since we do not have many of the national franchises or outlets that should be here, that those counties do, to retain the billions of dollars earned in Detroit, to sustain our city! So, money made in Detroit leaves Detroit at a rate near the speed of light headed for neighboring malls and retail centers! This is partly do to a City Council that seems to not be friendly to small businesses, according to the Mackinac Policy Institute, and this results in a dearth of entrepreneurship to provide these pent-up services that are in demand, but not being offered. If Detroit already had dozens of national franchises and several big box retailers [I agree with Mr. Foster] thousands of jobs could have been created!" Ladies and Gentleman, another reason the candidate decided to run was the economic indicators that show Detroit's dismal rust belt city performance. Detroit has the highest unemployment rate in the State with a population over 100,000. Detroit has the highest unemployment rate in the country with a population over 250,000! Ergo, Detroit cannot afford to tell any industry or company that would like to locate here we do not need their business! We have to "aggressively" recruit companies to come to Detroit instead waiting for them to come calling on the 313! Mr. Foster will be a chief-cheerleader for Detroit-developing it, improving it, promoting it, to the fullest! Detroit Needs Jobs!!! Detroit Needs Self-Directed Leadership with a Vision accomplishing the Mission. Detroit Needs Burgess Foster Elected to the City Council in 2009Constituent Services It is a pleasure and duty to effectively and efficiently help the residents of the city of Detroit with solutions within the scope and purview of the office Detroit City Council. **Platform**Innovative Policy CHANGE Submit in writing on the first day in office "It is hereby motioned by Councilman Burgess Foster Representing the People of Detroit at-Large that there be henceforth and in perpetuity a balanced budget ordinance. **Platform**Innovative Policy CHANGE Why I am for an ordinance banning contractual increases: If one would add up all the increases that were approved over the last EIGHT years I hypothesize that the total of those increases HAS SWELLED THE BUDGET BY NEARLY 100 MILLION DOLLARS! AND ALTHOUGH WE HAVE HAD THREE DIFFERENT MAYORS-COCKREL HAS BEEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DURING THESE BUDGETARY BALOONINGS AND MONICA CONYERS THE PRO-TEMPORE OF THE COUNCIL! ALL NINE CITY COUNCIL PERSONS NEED TO LEAVE AND ALLOW THE NEWLY ELECTED A 'CLEANED COUNCIL' AND THE CITY OF DETROIT A COLLECTIVE CLEAN CONSCIOUS SEE THIS LINK AS AN EXAMPLE: http://www.detroitmi.gov/legis lative/CityClerk/2009_Calendar /Whole Council/New Business/New Business011309.pdf **Platform**Creative Idea A National Technology Credit that would infuse a spending tear in capital goods, namely, computers, funded by the federal government towards families under a certain income level. It would work like earned income credits work. You, conceptually, would be given a credit at tax time that you could take with you to an electronics dealer in your economically depressed city or rural area, and purchase a computer, and internet connection for one year. This would allow, in my estimation, one third of the single parent moms to now be able to take online courses and work towards getting an Associates Degree. President Elect Obama should give more federal dollars to universities and community college that increase their capacity via online course offering and degree offerings. This would extend the possibility of a college education to those unable to do so due to facility limitation and a lack of seats to take courses in a brick and motar setting at your typical Wayne State University or Wayne County Community College, traditionally speaking. In about four to eight years you might see more entrepreneurial activity and less unemployment...not to mention that a technology credit would generate about $20,000,000,000 in the economy on computers (5,000,000 people spending $1,000.00 each over four years) **Platform**Clever Industry Taking close down schools and selling them to online universities like University of Phoenix (www.Phoenix.Edu); Capella University (www.Capella.Edu), Walden University (www.WaldenU.Edu), The University of Maryland-University College (www.UMUC.Edu), Western Governors University (www.WGU.Edu). This way the city of Detroit could garner some needed revenue for the sale of the facility at a fire sale price of say 5million per school. As a result the city would start to receive property taxes on said physical plants. As a matter of course you stipulate that because of the sale price being so low the purchaser must put an equal amount into the renovation of the building and must use Detroit based companies to do the work-indeed, too clever! **Platform**Innovation Here's my Equity Zone Idea: HUD partners with the City of Detroit. We take 10,000 homes that are salvageable that the city has ownership of. HUD grants us 200,000.00 for refurbishing. All refurbishing must be done by local, city owned, plasters, painters, carpenters and the like. Putting the skill trades people to work. They must have these houses up and running for occupancy in 18 months. At the end of the remodeling period-these 10,000 homes or this $200,000,000.00 development will go to a lottery for first time home buyers: no credit check, no interest or amortirizaion-straight rent to own. 10,000 people will be chosen out of 30,000 applicants-PriceWaterHouseCoop ers or Ernst and Young can certify the result for objectivity. All the former or erstwhile renters have to do is pay the flat rate rent of $700.00 per month and one third of the required property tax. So if the house was liable for $1,000 a year in taxes that person would pay $9,400 each year for ten years and at the end of the 120 payment-only-the house would be tranferred to the ertswhile renter who is now a home owner. The benefit to the city: 10,000 homes that were vacant are now occupied. Parcels/Dwelling that probably needed fire trucks dispatched to them intermittently-but offered no ad valorem taxes now generate revenue for the city. 10,000 times $300 is $3,000,000.00 now multiple this by 4 and you have the potential to foster equity amongst the hoi polloi. Innovative for sure. This is what I bring to the table-continuous innovation-more industry-better ideas (My mission). **Platform**Clever Industry Whether you make ethanol from corn, sugar or grass, the end game is the same-no distribution. The current big three: Exxon(TM), BP(TM), and those other guys have a lock. Almost none of their pumps are dedicated to an alternative fuel!! How is this improving the quality of life across the industrial heartland! President-Elect Barak Obama could easily invigorate the economy by calling for 2,000 new Butanol/Ethanol only gas stations-this would put pressure on the Crude Oil stations serving only 93, 92, 91, 89, and 87 to lower their prices despite what a barrel goes for if it knows cars could run on both. He could easily, with the stroke of is pen-initiate an Executive Order mandating that all gas stations use a mixture of 33% alternative fuel: Butanol or Ethanol--this will drive down the price per barrell while concomitantly fostering the engine technology that will propigate the consumption. Brazil has been so mandating this for years and has resulted in that nation-state's comparative and competitive advantage. Question: Do we have the technology to allow engines to get a long life and burn two different grades altogether? Answer Yes We Can!...Not just premium or regular unleaded, but buthanol/ethanol and premium too. Question Is engine technology here? Answer Yes, and it can improve! Well, Bob Lutz, President of N.A. Ops for GM says "Car technology is ready to go" He intoned this at an auto show interview not too long ago. These new pump distributors should use switch grass or import from Brazile and use the sugar cane based ethanol or Dupont technology for Butanol as it is less taxing on the environment. Also, President-Elect Barack H. Obama should not give these new credits to any of the big three crude oil distributors, this way, they cannot monopolize the prices. The President should consider issuing 400 credits to own and develop 5 stations each to minorities who do not own the distribution for gas in the communities in which they live-to spur entrepreneurship amongst the underclass. These green ventures or future energy depots should be located in the 25 largest cities in the USA." This new FE stations (Future Energy) could also incorporate recharge outlets for the electric vehicles like the all new Ford Fusion(TM) due to launch in 2010. These new combo stations should be launched in Rust Belt cities to give their economies a chance to catch up. Cities like Detroit could dictate policy that they will pass a moratorium on all new gas stations unless the operations meet the above criteria. Also, the City of Detroit could push the new technology by only placing orders for fleet vehicle sales for hybrid cars, e.g., the Ford Fusion. He says "When I am elected to the Detroit City Council this is the policy I will advocate for!" **Platform** Creative Idea Let L. Brooks Patterson and Pontiac have the State Fair every year for the next 100 years-maybe they can put the Michigan State Fair in the Pontiac Superdome! he explains why in a moment! Let's turn to the Lions. And even though the Lions have not played well in years, Mr. Foster is proud as a Detroiter to have them "actually" play in the city that bears their name! Win, Lose or Draw they are Detroit's NFL team and Mr. Foster will always be a fan of any team that actually plays in Detroit! The sentiment is growing across the 313 to discontinue the State Fair in Detroit Michigan!! Detroiters need jobs!! Take the land at this vital corridor and intersection of Woodward and 8mile and level the site to be home to Detroit's first MALL (G.reat M.all Retail Complex)...proof of Mr. Foster's continued out-of-the-box thinking. Detroit has no economic retail centers on the scale of a Fairlane, Oakland Mall, Great Lakes Crossing, Northland, Eastland, etc. Detroit needs to develop a better land use strategy instead of giving enough acreage away to build an amusement park to "one" church, when that land could have been developed to bring hundreds of jobs to the city of Detroit! Nothing against helping out churches, Mr. Foster is a spiritual man, but not religious. He loves God, and he will come to represent the entire city of Detroit, when he is elected in August and November of 2009, not an oligarchy (power by the few) or plutocracy (low social mobility and economic inequality) or even a netocracy (a perceived global upper-class that bases its power on a technological advantage and networking skills) across 8mile. He says Detroit needs representation that will help Detroiters become entrepreneurs and move away from the crony capitalism that seems to pervade the city. Detroit needs retail magnets to draw folks across metro Detroit. A city of Detroit's stature-in Americana-historically or any city with slightly less than a million residents should have more than 12 movie screens (4 in the Renaissance Center and 12 at Van Dyke and 8mile). Detroit is large enough to have an additional 32 screens! Fred Meijer's is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan and there are no Meijiers' in Detroit! And Detroit is Michigan largest city! Cease and desist with the State Fair and regain that land and put it to better use. Land is a vital resource in trying to jump start and stimulate the Detroit economy! If you want someone who is going to speak up and aggressively represent the city in a professional and methodical and scientific way then vote for Burgess Foster For Detroit City Council 2009. Mr. Foster wants to see half a dozen big box retailers in Detroit, Michigan, especially two at the State Fair Grounds! **Platform** Creative Idea The candidate supports services like allowing all Senior Citizens the ability to ride D.O.T. for FREE. When you have worked your whole life and are at the Social Security age of 63+ you should not have to pay to ride public transportation in the city of Detroit! AARP Should love him for this! **Platform** Continuous Innovation It will be a special project for the Candidate to re-institute the Summer Employment Youth Program by directing his staff to work funding this with a federal grant, in addition to the monies the Skillman Foundation has received for a similar purpose (approved April 2009; http://www.skillman.org/browse -grants/). This is where the Candidate received his first job as a Street Law Intern with Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services under the Direction of Linda Bernard and then Program Director, the late, Co-Pastor, April Howard-Coleman. Residents are encouraged to call and make an appointment for an audience with the Candidate and/or his staff to comment on concerns. Dropping by though welcome to do so, will not ensure the candidate is there to see you. Clever Idea He will require any resident who wishes to speak to him to bring their voter registration card to his office at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center and if they are not registered, they will be encouraged to register in his office because if you are not registered to vote how can you cast a vote for the Candidate that is trying to help you? Mr. Foster has talked to countless businesses across the (313)DET-ROIT district. For example, there used to be twenty-eight Midas(R) Muffler and Repair shops. However, after speaking with Ken and Tony the owner and manager @ the location on Warren & Caddieux he discovered that small business are being quasi mistreated by the city. The city has lost twenty-seven Midas' with shoddy inspections, overbilled items like taxing the small businesses' Gas and Electric bills that are paid to DTE(TM). Not to mention taxing them right out of our jurisdiction! This company had to pay a private person -$400.00 to pick up trash in front of its corridor down Warren & Caddieux. Other instances where private partners like Blight-Busters are working to strategically align themselves with entrepreneurs like La Tonya Coleman who recently purchased a building on Grayhal on Detroit's deep West Side for future development as an Early Childhood Education center. Blight-Busters(SM) worked to help rid her commercial site from debris the city should have cleaned up. No wonder Detroit is having a hard time attracting more small businesses! Why cannot small companies like Strictly Sportswear(TM) and Henry the Hatter(TM), companies that are representative of Detroit, be franchised nationally and Detroit be the National headquarters of their operations. **Platform*** Clever Industry Why is it so hard for other national franchises like; Applebees(TM), Oliver Garden(TM), Tim Hortons(TM), Krispy Kreme(TM), Fridays(TM), Ponderosa(TM), Outback Steakhouse(TM) to open up in a underdeveloped commercial property that the city currently owns? How? The city could use the unused real estate to stimulate the economy by transferring the deeds to entrepreneurs that could use the land and building to secure loans. Mr. Foster once elected will espouse a program called CPR. This is a take on the phrase cardio-pulmonary-resuscitation : However, as Mr. Foster means it, it denotes Commercial Property Re-distribution or resuscitating industry in the city. Putting vacant surplus commercial property owned by the city into the hands of Entrepreneurs as a form of seed capital to help a risk taker in gaining capitalization via collateral. (some working capital would be great; this would be ideal for those who have taken the buy-outs from the Big 3) The City must do more to help entrepreneurs expand their operations. **Platform** Creative Idea Mr. Foster once elected will motion to cut all property taxes by one third for all Residential Property owners and Commercial Property Owners! Why should only the "so-called" upscale neighborhoods get a 1/3 tax reduction when the rest of the city's hard working citizens do not, especially the small businesses in this city! **Platform** Creative Idea Mr. Foster once elected will be hiring a professional team or staff. Each of his staffers should have a graduate degree or working diligently to acquire one in the following areas of need: Business Administration/Management, Political Science/Government, Public Administration/Public Policy, Sociology, Social Work, etc. He will also "aggressively" seek to hire a Hispanic presence to his staff to help him nuance issues concerning Southwest Detroit and its new Gateway Project! **Platform** Continuous Innovation Mr. Foster once elected will forego the costly "Public Parachute." The Public Parachute is likened to the "Golden Parachute." Citizens have heard talk about by this by the national media. A Golden Parachute is when a CEO of a company like at Lehman Brothers that got the bailout, runs a company into the ground, lays off tens of thousands of workers, but yet finds tens of millions of dollars for perks and bonuses for the administrators!! Likewise, a Public Parachute is when elected officials and government administrators at all levels from the cities to the federal government continue to get high salaries, and perks like free cars and free gas-but the City of Detroit for example has a $300,000,000 deficit. So, how can the Detroit City Council demand to be paid a full salary of over $80,000.00 per year and get a free car and free gas? The Public Parachute! Mr. Foster believes for a salary of over $80,000.00 a year a City Council person should be able to lease a car of their own and thereby decrease the liability and variable costs of managing the city operations. **Platform** Continuous Innovation Mr. Foster once elected will self term limit. Another ingenious way to save money in the budget and impress Wall ST. where the city of Detroit borrows money from, to fund municpal projects, is to mandate-one eight year term limit. It costs approximately 3.5million to do one regular citywide election. If that is curtailed to one election every eight years that city will save 3.5million. In conjuction with eventually limiting the Council to five individuals will save an additional 22million over the same eight year period for a collective saving of nearly 27million. He will step aside after eight years as he hopes to become a Community College/University Provost after two terms in office/fulltime entrepreneur. **Platform** Continuous Innovation Mr. Foster once elected will motion for a "Standing Committee on the Charter" to be added to the other Standing Committees so that the recent consternation over the Charter and its'; power to remove people from office, rewriting the charter to represent by Ward or District and the issue of term limits can be addressed by a Standing Committee on the Charter. This is one solution that is totally unique to Mr. Foster and shows he is willing to benchmark the U.S. Congress in this instance since the U.S. Congress has a Standing Committee on the U.S. Constitution (the USA's Charter). **Platform** Clever Industry Mr. Foster believes there is Something Special About Detroit. He envisions new technology components related to the national Energy Question to be answered by Detroit! "Why can't the City of Detroit take abandoned industrial spaces that it owns in its surplus land, and use it as 'seed' capital for new Entrepreneurial Activity. The city could strategically align with higher learning institutions and launch start-ups out of Wayne State University and its School of Business or from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business or Michigan State University's Eli Broad School of Business. Detroit can afford to give underutilized land away free, that it owns, if the Entrepreneurs pledge to hire Detroiters and start to pay the reduced property taxes annually and to keep the future Company in Detroit for 100 years! **Platform** Creative Idea Squash the new Cobo Deal (for a 30 year franchise) and build a brand new NBA/Auto Show Complex (Truly and Really Based in Detroit that is proud to be in Detroit when it uses our historically famous name) on Belle Isle. This new complex could have dual use and serve as a new Convention Complex! Give the land away to a Derrick Coleman, Jalen Rose, Chris Weber, Steve Smith, Isaiah Thomas or Magic Johnson to build a new edifice called the North American International Complex! Across the waterway from Windsor, ON. Give the land away for free say 60 acres in all. But then the new arena could be used for making an Olympic Bid to add to the other stadiums we have in Detroit. Also, again, it could be the new home of the International Auto Show (makes sense that it would be in the new North American International Complex-ya think?). ______________________________ __ Mr. Foster believes in the City of Detroit! And will work to make Detroit a Model City again (Model City was a named given to Detroit under the Cavanaugh administration in Detroit. It was then that Detroit was a finalist in getting an Olymbic Bid approved, then the riots broke out, and every since we have been waiting to Rise from the Ashes!) Moreover, Mr. Foster has successfully completed the Skillman Foundation symposiums on Policy Advocacy hosted at Wayne State University in October 2008 will strategically alignment himself with the several neighborhood organizations like; Arden Park-East Boston Historic District, Atkinson Avenue Historic District, Bagley, Black Bottom/Paradise Valley, Boston-Edison Historic District, Bricktown Historic District, Brightmoor, Brush Park, Cass Corridor, Chaldean Town, Conant Gardens, Corktown Historic District, Cultural Center Historic District, Delray, Downtown, East English Village,East Ferry Avenue Historic District, Eastern Market Historic District, Grand Circus Park Historic District, Greektown Historic District, Indian Village Historic District, Islandview, Krainz Woods, Lafayette Park Historic District, Mexicantown, New Center, North Corktown, North End, Old Redford, Palmer Woods Historic District, Parkland, Pilgrim Village, Poletown, Springwells Village, Virginia Park Historic District, Warrendale, Washington Boulevard Historic District, West Vernor-Junction Historic District, West Vernor-Lawndale Historic District, West Vernor-Springwells Historic District, West Village Historic District, Woodbridge Historic District.

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