Please someone apply for the position of director of communications for the City of Prince George. Or please someone within city council, or perhaps the city canager, give Mayor Shari Green some advice before she speaks to the media. She needs some communications advice. I read your Dec. 27 article in which Mayor Green defended her city in 2013. The article reads, "Green said it 'astounds" her as to why there are so many naysayers within the community." "If it's such a terrible place, surely there must been greener pastures somewhere for them..."
Can that actually be her answer to complaints from residents of Prince George? Move to greener pastures? Surely Mayor Green must realize that the residents of Prince George include those in the business community. Has it not been the goal of the City of Prince George and Initiatives Prince George, as well as Tourism Prince George and the Prince George Chamber of Commerce, to encourage new business to Prince George? Who does she think the "naysayers" are? I would guess almost every resident in Prince George either owns a business, works for a business, resides with family members who work for a business, or has family members and friends who work for a business.
I find it insulting that the mayor suggested naysayers move to greener pastures. In any given situation in which there is a problem, the best action to take would be to find a solution and not to tell those who disagree with you to take a hike especially if you are a mayor.
Jacqueline Levesque
Prince George
