If I were mayor ... According to "rumors" collected from the New Venice, I would be among the potential candidates for mayor at the next administrative Quarto. What makes you smile, but to think of it ...
If I 'was fire, arderei' the world; if I 'was the wind, the tempestarei; if I' were water, the 'drowning; s' i 'was God, mandereil'en deep ... (Cecco Angiolieri)
Even though I'd like for once, stop talking about literature, I have to talk about today
Mayors: Mayors Past and future mayors (Mayor This, for once, leave him alone ...).
start with the past ... The newly formed association
cultural Future Memory (a test of the probable listings show up for the upcoming elections, as everybody knows by now the more) it asks me to divulge who organized the event for Friday, October 22
, the 20.30, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Quarto d'Altino:
"Three mayors in common: Mauro marcasite, Francis Borgia, Mauro Badalin" .
[
displays the poster ]
gladly publish and disseminate, and because I will definitely be attending an important opportunity to steal some "trade secret" and I say this mainly for myself because - and here come the future mayors -
yesterday morning I learned that one of the candidates for mayor in the upcoming municipal elections .
I swear I did not know, but here it 's article in the New
Venice, signed by Marta Arctic , full of inaccuracies and contradictions (highlighted in red, with personal comments in brackets).
Elections to the Fourth, parties choose candidates
New Venice - October 16, 2010 page 34 section: PROVINCE
Quarto d'Altino. Missing seven months in municipal elections that will elect the new mayor of Quarto d'Altino, the "rumors" are a lot even if the officer is still too early. What is certain is that the Democratic Party has already set in motion. A fortnight ago he presented a manifesto to the public and printed leaflets distributed these days, in which they outlined the program of the party and set out some key points. Michele Calzavara The Secretary met with the mayor, while on Monday evening to discuss the future of the Civic was Altinate, the group that the government and the expiry of the mandate [that is always them, Calzavara, the mayor and the other of the Civic Altinate .. .] . The name that comes back more insistent on pointed to the Democratic Party, is that of Silvio Conte, a young but determined, already within the circle of directors altinate and that in the last year has been at the forefront in the battle against ' Bonisolo incinerator. First name though - does the Secretary know - we want to find a large share of the project. "We believe it is fair to announce the first renewal - he explains - to make room for young people." top the list of priorities of the Democratic Party we are to develop sustainable, quality of life and tourism, motor capable of moving from the crisis. But the law, respect for rules and the concept that the policy should be in the hands of a few and not all [I got it right? the face of democracy!] . "We started a series of official and unofficial meetings with the various realities of the country (committees, organizations, political parties), suggesting a common table on which comforting [personally I would find more" comfortable "rather than a table and chairs, for more policy ...] , we are looking for a broader alliance and believe that the civil list is the solution that can help us win, but first we want to be shared our program [more democratic ...] , then define the people: we have not closed the door to anyone. " Even the league has adopted a candidate: it is likely that it will not be Fourthly, there are rumors of Marcon. Meanwhile, he asked for a room for meetings. In terms of administrative continuity, there Canonaco Franca, the current Minister for the Budget. The Democratic Party is open to proposals and well in the primaries, decided to launch [what? who? where? missing end of sentence ...] . The names there is in the center-center. There is the former deputy mayor Celestino Mazzon, now in opposition, for the PDL Cristina Baldoni. Returns the name of Mirko Toniolo, president of the sports club years, not tied to political parties but also to Mirko Visentin, President Diapason association and Naima, one of the founders of "Social Project" ["District Sociale, please ...] and editor of a blog. (Marta Arctic)
In the view of what was my dad on the phone while I was busy washing the floor of the house (which no longer suits a candidate for mayor, I agree, but there you are ... ). I support the spazzettone, I turn on the iPod, read, and understand it all: this is the usual article in which Marta Arctic
the pretext to mask a press release from the PD altinate political news story, put together a patchwork made of "rumors" (yes, like the iPhone ...), to unofficial reports, the "rumor" ... In short, all
things that are not worth a check beforehand with the people involved .
The same thing had happened exactly six months ago, with the article "Fourth
think the next mayor" only this time, having been called into question, I should at least ask me:
"Who it to him ' He said 'What is the Arctic? ".
The first answer that I gave myself is that maybe
some members of the "new PD , after several times of late
tried to involve me in his plans - to no avail - thought I wanted to - to paraphrase Dante -
"belong to myself," , and shared his thoughts with our reporter.
The other option is that Martin has spoken with his colleague from the "Corriere del Veneto" Alice D'Este, which for almost a year ago asking me to respond to an interview
titled "If I were mayor .. . . Interview to which I replied with great enthusiasm, of course.
Too bad that it was "inconceivable" the mayor of the fourth, but ... Venice! The interview in the end it came out (ah, 'sti journalists ...), but we're on the subject I take this opportunity to publish it.
If I were mayor of Venice ...
If I were mayor, I would do a lot of things have already been published in the book "If I were mayor ...", for surely someone has offered to track down tax evaders and thus" make money "or moderation prices, or to promote tourism not hit and run and more aware, or resize the Carnival (which is no longer "in Venice, but sponsors and art directors), or to open the door to door collection, or to install photovoltaic systems in the uninhabited islands of the lagoon, or to create conditions to make the university the new citizens of Venice, or to expand the project "Business Incubators" throughout the city, paying special young people who want to start their own business, or even to grant independence to Mestre and "mainland", thus pointing to the primacy of "Venice City traffic automomobilistico zero", etc..
All things can be shared, in short, that any future mayor could not disregard.
But what could I add? Be ', if I were mayor ... let's see ... If I were mayor ... here: to establish a museum spread of typography, tracking where they operate the engravers, printers, publishers who made Venice the capital of the world in the last decades of the '400 to nearly all the 500. Return it to the forefront of German names such as John of Speyer, the first official printer in Venice, in 1469, or the Frenchman Nicolas Jenson, the best engraver of the early models of Roman character, as well as the first true "entrepreneur" typography of the city or German Erhard Ratdolt, pager expert and inventor of the first catalog of characters, or Lazio Aldus Manutius, the first publisher in the modern sense, or the engraver Francesco Griffo of Bologna, inventor of italics and one of the best Roman currently still in use (Bembo), which will draw inspiration from the Parisian Claude Garamond for the famous characters, or by Fossombrone Ottaviano Petrucci, inventor of the music press movable type, or Alessandro Paganini, first editor of the Arabic Quran with movable type.
same time, invite the two universities Venice (Ca 'Foscari and IUAV) to establish and promote education on the history of printing, the printing and publishing, design of typefaces (Type design), the publications, in to prepare professionals who can then find the place where the city to build on their knowledge and skills. In this way you would create a new "clean industry", made up of ideas, creativity, technology, and Venice may well go back to being a European capital of Printing and Graphics.
I find that to
If I were mayor ... has been a very interesting experiment: an experiment in democracy
really live (other than primary) and "open source" , I planned to repeat the elections in Quarto. Unfortunately, "rumors" and "rumor" I want
involved in so many other ways, and frankly I do not know if I'll manage with all these commitments ... - And then as we do with the conflict of interest?
"They have no hope of death, and their blind life is so low, that 'envious I am of every other fate. Fame of them the world does not endure; mercy and justice disdain them: not speak of them, but look and pass. " (Dante Alighieri, Inferno III, vv. 46-51)
x PS Marta Arctic is the third time in a month that you talk about me or things about me without first approached me ( see the "question of the music school Diapason & Naima" on the September 17 New
and preview on the mayor's letter in response to the request of counsel "open" on the District of New Social
on September 26 ). Next time, please, contact me. We are friends on Facebook, you have my email, you have my cell phone number .... Just
also make me a phone call: I'll call you back .
