Mallory Looking for New YPs
Mayor Mark Mallory has changed the leadership of his YPKC. That's Young Professionals Kitchen Cabinet.
Here's the new team: President Coby Williams; Vice President Clara Rice; Secretary Erika Lehman; and PR Liaison Doug Meyers.
Now he wants new members too. He'll be talking it up today with Gov. Ted Strickland at the Bold Fusion event, and applications also will be available at http://www.mayormallory.com/. Applications are due Oct. 1.
Mallory's office said he plans to announce next week the cabinet’s committee chairs and release a report about the accomplishments of his YPKC during its first year. Among the issues the YPs have helped with: Shop 52, his new effort to try to recruit new retail, banks and restaurants into all Cincinnati's neighborhoods.
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at 6:02 PM, September 12, 2007 
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at 1:06 PM, April 29, 2008 
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Post a Comment*This might be a little tough for the folks at City Hall to understand, but calling it a "Kitchen Cabinet" is a little demeaning. The young professionals in Cincinnati that have a sense of self-respect, and the intelligence to boot, aren't going to willingly attach to themselves the childish title of "Kitchen Cabinet Member". What are we to City Hall? A box of Corn Flakes? A bottle of 409? Maybe we're an extra bag of noodles or a neat little ornament you put out for special occasions?
I guess they just thought it was kinda funny calling it a kitchen cabinet, right? Yeah, ha ha. Not only is that just really not funny, but it's just really a waste of everyone's time. What committee member thought that one up anyway? The same one that didn't have the time to say YOUNG PROFESSIONAL and had to get that five-syllable mega-phrase down to something cute and bite-sized; the same type of person that can't lift of a whole hamburger but has to have two mini hamburgers?!
You don't need a "kitchen cabinet" to figure out what young professionals want. All you need to do is go hang out with them for a minute and ask them. Why does everything City Hall does have to be a committee?
Hey, Mark! Leave your body guard, your girlish pitching arm and your staff of "experts" at City Hall and sit next to a young gent or lass at the bar sometime. Trust me, the way to reach out and get a sense of what young people want in this town is NOT to hire a bunch of former high school class presidents and banker's daughters and form a cartoon cabinet.
They just don't get it. This City just needs to loosen its belt and sit around in its underwear for awhile, you know? Jeez. PC, YP, TP, whatever.
Good Luck, Mayor.
At least you don't get emails from me anymore because you put me on your spam list. Fountain Square's not bad, so good job on that, I guess, but really Bill D. does all that work.
~Gordon Amerika~
Shadow Mayor & founder of ANP CINCY
I had to laugh at your humor, Mr. America. Your writing is very witty. The visual of a banker's daughter sitting with a bunch of cartoon characters is actually humorous to imagine.
And it's funny because it's completely inaccurate of who we are on the YPKC. We are young professionals. We have day jobs- from lawyers and marketing reps, to carpenters, community leaders, and an occasional struggling novelist.
We aren't some arm of bureaucracy, as you imagine. We are the activists of the 21st century.
Did you know that we created a program to kick off recycling in Cincinnati public schools? We educated students about recycling and recycled 14,000 pounds of material.
Did you know that our "cartoonish" group donated over 140 pounds of dried goods for the FreeStore in February (the Freestore's toughest month)?
Did you know that we worked alongside the mayor on his personal project of the Summer Jobs Fair for teenagers? Over 1,200 students showed up to speak to employers.
And in terms of the mayor's horrible pitching arm... Did you see him make his pitch on Jimmy Kimmel live? Did you see him pitch our city, talking about how great Cincinnati is? How do you take an embarrasing moment and turn it into a PR opportunity for the city?
I think what the mayor has created in the YPKC is far more productive than sitting in a bar talking to people, as you suggested. Trust me, I enjoy doing both. But I find the YPKC far more rewarding.
But hey, I like your writing. It's pretty entertaining.
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