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Take me to your leader, please.

The other day I attended a meeting of Grassroots Greater Dayton [1] (GGD)- a new(er) organization that is working on regional issues of sprawl and cooperation. I’m a firm believer in their platform, and would love to see the irrationally feared “uni-gov” come to Dayton. It’s sort of funny that to try to eliminate the redundant and numerous organizations targeting “development” that we have to form yet another organization.
Our problem isn’t talking about the issues- our problem is we can’t advance outspoken leaders in our community. It’s just not in our DNA.
Long ago, former City of Dayton Planning director, Paul Woodie told me “You need a herd to be heard” in this City- and that’s still true today. GGD had a room full of bright people, but no vocal front man- to lead the charge. Because its funding comes partly from the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission, it’s unlikely that GGD will back a political agenda- or candidates- at least not directly.
How can we move forward as a community without visionary leaders at the front? The answer is unfortunately, we can’t.
The reality is that in Dayton leadership has been done out of a back room for a long time- decisions are made one of two ways- either through proxy- or by putting on a well-directed charade of group-think to come up with a plan that still must be approved by the “powers that be.” If you are wondering who they are- look into an organization that calls itself the “Dayton Business Committee.”
If we want to see progress- we first have to define what “progress” is. Then we have to find a few monomaniacs to drive this community toward those goals like Dwayne Wade drives to the basket.
I’m going to take a quick stab at a list- without going to look at other sites like GGD for hints:

On the State level:

I’ve probably missed a ton of things- but I started out with the idea of a short list- and this has already gotten way too long.
If you have any ideas to add- feel free to comment-
In the meantime- please, lets figure out who can lead us closer to some of the above ideas.

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