Good Morning Mayor: What's Up?, Paperback/Leslie Waters
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Description Good Morning Mayor, What's Up is a primer on local government, the government closest to the people. It explains how City governments are formed, managed and governed. It tells how to get elected to public office, how to advocate state legislators, provides highlights of the value of constitutional municipal home rule versus state overreach, and provides relevant municipal government terminology. It is a book for students of all ages in public, private, home schooling, all the way through high school and college/university. Candidates for city council would benefit, as would elected officials at the state and federal levels of government. Professional Associations of Elected and Appointed Local, State, National and International Officials such as Mayors and Commissioners, Board Members, City and County Managers, City Clerks, and Public Entity Lawyers would be interested in this book. About the Author Mayor Leslie Waters was born in Gulfport, Florida. After earning her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Florida State University in Tallahassee she had a 29-year career with Allstate Insurance Company in St. Petersburg. She and her husband, Al Waters, have lived in Seminole, Florida, in the same house since 1979. Leslie Waters served eight years in The Florida Legislature, leaving office at the top level of leadership, Speaker Pro-Tempore. She manages her own consulting firm, Leslie Waters Government Relations, where she specializes in international democracy training, working with the International Republican Institute/IRI Global and the Woman's Democracy Network in Washington D. C. She has facilitated workshops and consulted with local, state and provincial elected and appointed government officials, political candidates and community activists in such evolving democracies as Indonesia, Sri-Lanka, Jordan, Egypt, Southern Sudan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Somaliland, Mongolia and Tunisia, where she worked with Libyan women civic leaders. She also provides "One-On-One C
