Since there are no viable candidates to run for Mayor, I'll be stuck voting for Fenty.

I believe he has a very unique platform and plan to help DC residents on both sides of the park which I felt I had to share. As a family man himself Leo and his wife; a Commander in the US Navy; spoke of honor, trust and duty and what Leo brings to the table. Leo does not want to give DC residents a fish; he wants to teach them to fish by providing them access to fishing poles which will help DC residents on both sides of the park.

While it appears Leo Alexander is trying to reduce generational poverty in DC which might not be a concern of some DC residents; he has some very good ideas on how to do this and why doing it will lower taxes, crime and increase monies for public services while also giving our DC children the chance to compete for jobs and college entrance by providing them a better education in our public schools and finally "Bridging the Digital Divide" through the use of more and better technology, processes and systems.

1. Mr. Alexander plans on attacking the Generational Poverty problem at its infancy with the DC Public school system as he does not believe our children in DC are any less smart than their counterparts in Montgomery and Fairfax County or our teachers are any less educated or motivated. He feels after many administrations our children and teachers just do not have the tools they need to raise test scores which relies heavily on technology and having Internet access and computers in classrooms, labs or libraries. I also know during this bad economy less DC parents can afford private school tuition and would like to be able to send their children to our public schools.

2. Mr. Alexander plans on going after more jobs for DC residents by putting vocational training back in our schools; decreasing the level of illegal immigrants competing for these jobs and working with businesses to offer a higher percentage of DC jobs to legal DC residents. He also wants to work with our local colleges and high schools to offer placement assistance for their graduates by having them partner with businesses in the community. How many of our kids have degrees and cannot find work?

3. With more DC residents working or furthering their education it will increase the amount of taxes paid into the system and reduce some of the families on public assistance. With more DC children being able to compete for jobs and college entrance they will be able to help their parents and siblings succeed as well. All of this will help decrease taxes paid on both sides of the park and provide better schools and public services which can even help to raise real estate prices in the city.

You can ask Leo questions yourself via his social networking links on his website or contribute to his campaign right online if you believe it is time for real change in 2010.

I moved to DC with the hopes of finding my 11 year old son a decent education but 6 months later we were homeschooling him. I do not believe that firing the teachers was the right decision when they have never had the tools they needed to help raise test scores or to show many of our inner city kids that there is more out there beyond their own city block.

Vote for finally Bridging the Digital Divide in DC, bringing back vocational programs in our schools and reducing taxes and crime in our city by helping all of its legal residents compete for jobs in DC so that generational poverty can be reduced in our city.

How about instead of broad brush generalizations and half-assed solutions victimizing the "other" we take a proactive view of actually addressing the blatantly OBVIOUS inequalities in education and health?

Of course that would mean critiquing your own community and neighborhood as well as the "other".