Tallahassee Town Hall
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Tallahassee Town Hall 2018
There’s nothing more quintessentially American than a town hall meeting. Within its ethos is the important founding principle that political foes must grudgingly become partners as they engage conflicting ideas in order to govern. It’s the old-fashioned spirit of rolling up our sleeves and just getting it done. And this year features new commissioners you’ll want to get to know. The program will also be streamed live via Facebook Live and will be broadcast later in the week on WFSU-TV and WFSU-FM 88.9 radio.
Our annual town hall pairs commissioners from the City of Tallahassee and Leon County to have a constructive (and neighborly) cross-governmental discussion about where we are, where we’re going and what the challenges out there on the horizon might be. You know, democracy. Booyah. (Look – Washington – at how it’s done.) Our town hall is facilitated by Tallahassee Democrat Publisher Skip Foster – and powered by Leadership Tallahassee. (Read us blathering on about Tocqueville and America and just what an important thing you’re doing by moseying on down to the town hall when really it just seemed like something small.)
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John Dailey
Bryan Desloge, County Commissioner
Commissioner Elaine Bryant
Kristin Dozier
Curtis Richardson
Jimbo Jackson
Mary Ann Lindley
Jeremy Matlow
Rick Minor
Dianne Williams-Cox
Skip Foster
It was probably our founders’ biggest idea – and assuredly their boldest – that a diverse people could self-govern.
Even before electricity, muddling through local governance issues wasn’t likely our first choice on how to spend an evening. Our first and strongest associations in America were with the people who shared a common geography and, amid many threats, likely a common fate: our neighbors. The town hall meeting was born early in our republic, and in one form or the other they’ve been happening ever since.