by Travis Mateer
After Andrea Davis was elected Mayor last year, she wasted no time traveling to Harvard to get her marching orders from the globalists. No other Mayor in Montana felt it necessary to visit an exclusive east coast institution for matching orders, so why did Missoula’s Mayor feel like she needed this PROGRAMMING in order to do her job?
Here’s a quote from the Current’s latest “reporting” on our Mayor is getting programmed at Harvard (emphasis mine):
In a press release, the city said Davis is among 39 mayors who comprise the program’s eighth class. The leadership program provides senior executives the tools they need to address “increasingly global challenges.”
“You can share ideas, support each other, get straight scoops on the good, the bad and the ugly,” Davis said in a statement. “Sometimes it’s the recognition that we are in this together. There’s that collegial affirmation. The reality is that we are dealing with so many of the same issues.”
Yes, I agree, there are GLOBAL issues that the globalists create because they want to impose their globalist solutions, and weak leaders, like our Mayor, are choosing to expose their weak minds to this garbage. Unfortunately one thing Mayor Davis will not learn at Harvard is that going WOKE is a precursor to going BROKE.
If Mayor Davis would like an example of a business going woke, then going broke, here’s my reporting on the hilarious effort to rebrand a burrito business from the insensitive name NINJA MIKE’S to a more woke name, like Golden Yolk Griddle: Good Hens Get Golden Product Placements, Not Ninjas (February 15th, 2021).
Earlier this year I even specified that the location of the Golden Yolk, like the library, is particularly hard to turn into a successful business because some patrons of Mountain Line have problematic behavior.
Here’s what I wrote last February about the closing of the cafe inside the library:
Since I worked in homeless services for nearly a decade, my bias is toward crediting the challenging patrons of the library for creating a less-than-ideal environment to sell coffee and snacks. This is the same challenge that Subway and Ninja Mike’s experienced at the retail spot by the main bus transfer station downtown, so it’s a good thing Ninja Mike’s rebranded themselves for woke money to become the GOLDEN YOLK.
For more context on the Golden Yolk name change, here’s what I quoted 3 years ago:
Beloved Missoula restaurant Ninja Mike’s announces that, beginning today, it will operate under its new name: Golden Yolk Griddle. With its complete rebrand, the community relationship-centered business can better pursue its mission of offering Missoula delicious, consciously-sourced meals.
“We want to be a supportive force for justice and equity in our community and commit to an anti-racist action plan for our business,” said Golden Yolk Griddle owner Ethan Siegel on the decision to no longer continue under the Ninja Mike’s brand. “Changing our name is a necessary first step in this continuous work. We are glad to be cultivating conversation and participation within our community. ”
Well, guess what? This woke rebranding didn’t work, and now the business is closing. From the link:
The popular breakfast and lunch spot that has been a staple in downtown Missoula since 2009 is currently for sale the Golden Yolk Griddle at 200 W. Pine Street, in the Mountain Line transfer station downtown. It is being listed by Keller Williams Western Montana Realty and shown by Julie Gardner from ERA Lambros Real Estate.
If THIS rebranding effort didn’t work, why does Mayor Davis think her Harvard rebranding effort for our ENTIRE TOWN will work?
If you don’t think Missoula is getting rebranded, then please explain to me what a RESULTS ORIENTED CULTURE is, and why our Mayor wants to turn Missoula into one (emphasis mine):
After her election last fall, Davis joined 28 mayors in the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard’s Program for New Mayors: First 100 Days.
During the program, Davis said she gained new knowledge of best practices and strategies for new mayors. Davis noted the program’s benefits last week when releasing her executive priorities for Fiscal Year 2025, particularly in her goal to create a “results oriented culture.”
For anyone who watched the torturous process of creating an urban camping ordinance, the idea that Missoula will be transformed into some new form of culture by our new Mayor is kinda terrifying.
Isn’t it a given that citizens expect RESULTS from their elected leaders? Maybe Harvard has a course that teaches Mayors how to hide their condescending attitudes toward the skeptical public by creating new bullshit phrases to peddle to them. Is that what’s going on here?
Since RESULTS are what our Mayor is claiming her leadership culture will be built around, I’ll be eager to see those RESULTS along the riverfront, so stay tuned, and please consider donating to Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF) if you see value in the journalistic work I’m doing here in Zoom Town.
Thanks for reading!