Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team Community Forum on Quality of Life

MEDIA ADVISORY
For September 25, 2008 - Camera Opportunity!


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
Ken Gleasman – Executive Board Chairman
DWSCMT/at/gmail.com

Doug Hausladen – Public Safety Chairman
douglas.hausladen/at/gmail.com


WHEN: Thursday, September 25th, 2008 6:00-7:15pm


WHERE: The Omni Hotel, The Grand Ballroom
155 Temple St., New Haven, CT

WHO:
Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team
Bitsie Clark – Alderperson, Ward 7
Lt. Marty Tchakirides - District Manager, NHPD
Win Davis – Director of Operations, Town Green Special Services District
Sean Matteson - Chief of Staff, Mayor’s Office
Chrissy Bonnano – Deputy Economic Development Administrator, City of New Haven


WHAT:
Downtown-Wooster Square Community Management Team to hold community forum on downtown New Haven quality of life – Event to discuss and suggest solutions for residential quality of life adversely being affected by noise, litter, parking, safety, and traffic.

WHY:
Our downtown is ever-changing and stands at a cross roads in use. For years, the downtown was dominated by office buildings and shopping centers, only to see a blossoming of residential and mixed-use development in the past fifteen years. As we race to bring more residents to the downtown area, quality of life issues present in our downtown population today will only be acerbated more. How will we reconcile the residential concerns with future and current economic development in the area? How will we prepare for the influx of more residents to downtowns with ever growing demand for multi-modal street use and public transportation accessible development? We need to work together as a city, as residents, as business owners, and as
downtown patrons to find the answer to these issues.


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Consumers Call Recall on GOP Corporation's '08 Model

In an unprecedented move, consumers have demanded a recall of the GOP in 2008. According to sources, the GOP is causing people to become highly hateful and extremely irritated. The FDA recently released a report outlining the illnesses consumers succumb to by ingesting the GOP in 2008 including:

- Using fear as only method of protecting US
- Excusing hatred and bigotry
- Sarah Palin
- Digging your way out of a ditch as an answer

The move by the consumers of GOP in 2008 to publicly and collectively recall the brand outside of regulatory bodies seems unprecedented. This could leave an opportunity for Barack Obama to push through sweeping reforms and actually fix something at the federal level. Shocking, but true.

Check back in 2010 to see just how badly this GOP is doing and if they can regain any resemblance of credibility.

McCain picks a VP Candidate with a pregnant 17yo daughter

during Obama's speech in Denver, he says "We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country." the next day, his opponent's VP is announced, with a 17yo unmarried pregnant child. he has quickly stated that this is not a political issue, and they should not be discussing it. but i firmly and hotly disagree. the conversation should be on domestic issues and problems. everyone is addressing symptoms of problems and not addressing the root causes. you'll get the GOP bitching about welfare costs, but they don't see the cause of welfare is having poor people, and the causes of poor people are addressed through proper education funding (including college opportunity) and sexual education (including birth control, condoms, etc etc).

what i wish we could discuss in public - that palin's daughter is a victim of not having real sex education in our country. alaska's brilliant sex-ed policy is summarized here. i think it retarded that the GOP is excited about having their VP have a 17yo daughter pregnant out of wed-lock. it's ridiculously against their platform on one hand (abstinence only until marriage) and an idiotic act to be upheld and lauded. and yet here we are UNABLE in the press to have a real discussion about the rest of americans having babies in your teens and how it's a problem that is fixable and worth fixing because the governor's horny little daughter got knocked-up because she had never been given the sexual-education needed to play safe and properly plan a family. i'm not saying that all unintentional pregnancies are bad or unwanted. i'm not saying that children under 18 should not be allowed to be parents or to wed. i'm just saying that we are selling our children short not to give them the ability to make good choices when there are serious life-changing consequences on the line.

--In 1992 the Federal government spent more than $34 billion on welfare for families begun by teenagers, up from $16.6 billion in 1985. In 1995, Indiana spent $7.4 million in Aid to Dependent Children for approximately 2,700 teen parents.

--For every federal dollar spent on giving contraceptives to low-income women the government saves more than $4 in welfare payments, medical costs, etc.

--Of all the women aged 15-44 who received welfare or AFDC in 1993, over half (55%) became mothers when they were teenagers. Only 5% were currently teenage mothers; of these, 83% were aged 18-19.

to quote Obama -"We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country." the things that are the causes are what obama is attacking, not the symptoms. i seriously hope he gets elected so that we can remove our heads from the sand/sphincter in which they have been on so many issues, teenage pregnancy being one of these.