Recent WBRU interview: “For all of us, the election
is just this thing that’s going to happen this fall. What’s far more
important to all of us is that we see our little city as having the
opportunity to create a new model for civic engagement. If anyone can
do it, we can.” Here's the article:
The Brief, 03/08/2010: DIY Democracy with the UnCaucus
Now that Providence Mayor David Cicilline is running for Congress, who’s running for mayor? Let’s review: John Lombardi, Steven Constantino, Daniel Harrop, Christopher Young, Angel Taveras and—you? Well, one local group wants to think about it.
The group is called UnCaucus, and they’ve been reaching out to potential candidates in an unusual way. Just ask Dan Seitz, a freelance writer from Boston.
“I’ve been looking for a job, and I went through Craigslist,” Seitz says.
There was one ad that caught his eye: “Wanted – mayor of Providence. So I just go in, I click the ad, and I decided, ‘What the hell?’”
