Former Mayor Frank Nicastro said he would like to try to help get the City Council and Mayor Art Ward working together better.
“The voters want to see the council go forward. They don’t want to see outright bickering,” he said. “They want to see action.”
Nicastro said that during his decade as mayor, “we weren’t hugging and kissing every day,” but both he and the councilors he worked with understood they had to pull together to find a common agenda that would benefit Bristol.
Everyone involved, he said, recognized he couldn’t get everything he wanted.
Nicastro said that Ward has to realize he can’t always get his way and the council today has to recognize that it needs to work with the mayor, not quarrel with him in public.
“My intention is to try to work with the council individually,” Nicastro said, and to continue talking with Ward about the nature of the mayor’s role.
He said that a mayor “can’t hold grudges” and can’t let disagreements derail his administration from larger goals.
Nicastro said that the city expects its leaders to pull together, no matter which party they’re from, and to seek the common good.
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18 comments:
Geee .... I seem to remember a councilor during the previous administration who would have benefited from such guidance . Would you call it Karma ??? ;-)
What we should all hope for is that every one of our elected officials get together and agree to find a way to work together. The majority of Bristol's population has had it with all the politic already.
Funny how politics is played: A few months back, Frank was part of the problem, now he feels he is the solution!
Gimme a break!
Thank God for Frank Nicastro.
Art Ward is going to have a hard time taking advice from anyone (Marine mentality) but I hope this works. If Frank can't get through to him, there is not much hope. The people Art surrounded himself with during the campaign weren't exactly strategy people.
I'm disturbed that Craig Minor had to call on another council member to be the mediator between the democrats. Couldn't he have been adult enough to carry a productive conversation on his own? Why call on Frank to save the world?
Seems very adolescent to me.
Art Ward is gonna continue to backslide the next few months because he is going to take everything personally since he still doesn't get the reason why he barely won the election and is just blaming all these others things...not a lot of leadership coming out. I feel sorry for him. I don't think he knoew what he was getting into
if minor had that mentality, the present situation would not exist, the next time that he thinks for himself will be the first time that he has thought for himself. As a side note: even then, don't feel that self-assured.
I'm disturbed that Art Ward is doing the same thing he whined that Stortz did to him for 2 years, seems very adolescent to me.
I find it disturbing that the brave Art Ward couldn't do the dirty work himself to win the primary and election, he had to get his pals to fling the mud at the last minute. Also don't forget Art Ward hedged his bets by threatening to run as an Independent if he lost the primary. To Ward, principles don't matter.
I am disturbed with all the "Anonymous" posters who feel they have all the answers - yet don't have the b***s to put their names.
As if Peter Lynch is a real name.
Coming together is all fine and dandy, but let's hope they don't sell their souls just to get along and be in agreement. Remember, they're still working for the citizens not for the mayor or each other. Councilors...do what's right for us, but don't agree or disagree on something because you were pressured into it and it's not what you genuinely believe is best for the city.
Its not Frank coming to the rescue - its Minor, McCauley and Block that need to grow up and start acting like adults and professionals.
Nicastro will play this to HIS advantage. This issue MUST be dealt with by the MAYOR not anyone else. If Ward fails to show leadership here by reaching out to each member individually then Art Ward is more doomed then he already is. After 14 years you'd think he would know how to handle this. What a waste.
Frank: When are you going to be the state rep?
Art Ward is a war hero, leave him alone.
Art Ward, a war hero? Was this before or after he cured polio and caused the downfall of the Soviet Union?
what happend to the pension increase.
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