Do The Right Thing

1
Do The Right Thing!

• What is fair in a complicated world.

Memo 1
2
Memo 1

• BIG Question What should councilperson do?
• Back Rendell/Take on Unions
• Oppose Rendell/Back Unions
• Stay out of Fray

3
What motivates?

• Ask yourself what would the councilperson feel
  is a good reason or justification?
• Is the councilperson motivated by ideas
• Ideas about fairness
• Ideas about what is good policy
• Is the councilperson motivated by interests?
• Self-interest to be re-elected
• Self-interest to satisfy an important
  constituency
• Self-interest to tie their own political fate to
  a very popular, recently elected mayor.

4
1st Paragraph

• Clear 1st Paragraph is critical
• Answer BIG QUESTION
• D/n spend time reviewing crisis.
• Let councilperson know exactly what the
  recommendation is and why
• Details/arguments follow
• Why/Why not
• Political reason likely
• Policy good/bad, fair or unfair
• This could be recommended frame!
• Not good politics to choose bad policy or do
  something seen as unfair.

5
Tuesday

• Handling competing priorities
• Naval Yard
• Race relations
• Strategies
• How to best handle an unfair outcome.
• How to appear that you are doing something- even
  about seemingly untractable problems.
• How to appear that one is being fair and
  balancing multiple (competing?) priorities
• Race relations
• End Does politics matter?