The purpose of this blog is to capture key learnings about how, in the relm of politics, a very good idea can go bad.
The author was one of the "chief petitioners" for the creation of a Clackamas County Complete Community "Village". Being retired, she was willing to volunteer larges amounts of time to the community.
As the sweet attentions and promises of the consultants hired to create complete communities faded into to the neglect by the Commissioners who hired them, the actions of the very junior bureaucrat hired to coordinate the program along with the apparence of do-nothing control freaks creeping out of the woodwork, what was a "good idea" became a tarpit of
politics, bullying, personal attacks, deception, and violation of Community Trust, at its worst.
So read and learn about some of the creative ways, tools, and techniques of the