...the proverbial six-peckered billy goat.
After getting back from 3 days in Eugene/Springfield yesterday, I settled down with my email and blogs, only to be called by a friend, who runs the Gresham Tea Party. She has been taking a course in TV production at the Community College hereabouts, and just graduated, and has bagged some studio time on Local Access Cable, so she asked me if I had anything I wanted to say in front of the camera (knowing your blogger to have the Gift of Gab).
Did I? You betcha, Red Ryder! I just happened to have an on-the-shelf project ready-made for local-access TV, and I dusted it off, spruced it up, and began to practice the three pieces I will shortly air.
"Common Sense Gresham" will be all about bringing a more limited and cheaper vision of Goverment to my humble burg, the City of Gresham. As you can see by that link, Gresham thinks big, way too big for it's tax-base, so, to keep it's big-thinkers on the City payroll, it has cut police, among other things. Gresham now has the ugly distinction of being the only City of any size in Oregon to have increased it's crime rate in all major FBI classifications, especially noteworthy since most of the cities actually reduced their crime rates.
As I see it, this problem is caused by the distinctly Willamette Valley way of thinking, and that starts with a "P" for "progressive". Progressive costs big money, and lacks common sense, for the most part, so now I'm going to raise my voice and show my ugly mug on TV, uttering those pearly tones to tell viewers about the mistakes that their City makes.
Here's the script for the intro to my project:
Download Common Sense Gresham Intro
Then the script for the next spot, where I introduce viewers to some basic bureaucracy theory:
Download Common Sense Gresham 2
Then a longer spot where I tackle the lack of common sense in the Green movement:
Download Common Sense Gresham 3
It's a long way from writing TV scripts (I'm fairly good at that) to smooth delivery without use of a teleprompter or reading from a page, and I have exactly 25 hours until I have to smile for the cameras and she yells "...and ACTION" (or whatever producers do, probably just gestures at the camera operator to roll tape).
I'm a busy man. We're going to upload all to You Tube, so I'll post linx to those when I have them. If you want to comment, I have established an email address, (translate, you know why and how) "Common.Sense.Gresham-at-gmail-dot-com" to accept those comments, which site will become a permanent part of the project file. This project may eventually run someone (maybe me, maybe not) for City Council, so I will have to keep good records.
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