The First Sign of a Plan

This is a straight steal from Progressive Fitchburg, which looked for websites on the mayoral candidates. If you want the rundown, check the Unicow (yeah, that's what the guy calls himself) out. Good read.

Anyway, for the last month or so folks have been wondering when Lisa Wong was going to start laying out a plan. There's at least a framework on her website here.

A few things we like:

- The creation of a 311 system, which allows residents to call those numbers for info and complaints.

- Not sure what the "Downtown 1000" plan entails -- beyond getting 1,000 people living within five mintues of downtown -- but I'm intrigued. I also like the fact that a key plan for a candidate has a fairly snappy name. It's the sign of thinking, creative campaign.

- A parking plan for downtown. I hope that means chunks of free parking on Main Street. That's important.

Anyway, those are three things. There are a bunch of other ideas, some general, some fairly specific. But if you're looking for an idea of where a candidate is thinking, you have three choices: Call 'em, wait for them to knock on your door, or check out websites and literature. At this point, the Wong website is the best we've seen so far both electronic and ole-fashioned printed.