Thursday, June 25, Mayor Ron Littlefield will deliver his annual State of the City address in the ballroom of the Doubletree Hotel in downtown Chattanooga. A reception starts at 4:30 p.m., and the mayor's address begins at 5:30 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
Chattarati will webcast a video feed of the address along with liveblogging of the event. We are partnering with ChattOutLoud's Donald Sayers for video, Daniel Ryan for web support, and Cameron Adams for photography.
You can watch the video stream, read the blog, Twitter (#SOTC), and submit comments to the liveblog in real time. Just point your browser to live.chattarati.com, Thursday at 5:00 p.m. This is an exciting opportunity for the social media community in Chattanooga, and we hope you will participate.
Thursday, June 25, 5:00 p.m. — State of the City Webcast by Chattarati.
David Morton
John Hawbaker
mwillingham on June 19, 2009
Interesting... the mayor is very into the city having more and more power (annexing people that don't want to be annexed, getting into the TV, telephone, and Internet business, etc.), but he chooses not to have his events (election celebration-Choo Choo, City Address-Doubltree) at places other than "his" city owned hotel (The Chattanoogan).
Zack Littlefield on June 24, 2009
Mike -
Seeing as how you seem to have a problem with just about every single thing that the mayor does, I'm hoping that you will run for mayor in 2012 (and get elected) so that you can show us all how much better of a job you would do. I look forward to seeing your name on the ballot - and to hearing your solutions to all of the challenges of managing an entire city. Maybe YOU can make everyone happy, all of the time, despite the old saying.
It's never too early to start presenting your well-thought-out plan on how to run a city government. I'm all ears.
Oh, and by the way, I attended a VW press conference days before the official wall raising ceremony. It was at the Chattanoogan. I also ate Mother's Day brunch at the Chattanoogan with the mayor and his wife (my mom). The food was delicious and the staff was wonderful.
You're also wrong about one other thing - his election celebration has never been at the Choo Choo. In fact, this year it was at the Double Tree in the same room it was in (under a different hotel name) when he ran for Public Work when I was a young kid.
Just saying. I'm looking forward to your campaign.
Z
mwillingham on June 24, 2009
Unfortunately I'm as unqualified to run for mayor as you are, but thanks for asking.
Zack Littlefield on June 24, 2009
It's never too late to start getting qualified if you think you could do the job better.
Complaining and calling good people names (soft core porn actress??) is simple.
Managing an entire city is not.
Looking forward to hearing your approach on running Chattanooga once your qualified.
Z
DavidMorton on June 24, 2009
Zack,
Are you gonna tune in for the webcast?
facebook-146900541 on June 24, 2009
this may be the most important thread in the history of Chattarati. Happy 1 Year Anniversary!
John Hawbaker on June 24, 2009
We're on it as best we can -- please remember this is no one's full
time gig.
I've deleted Robert's way over the line comment and will clean up the
rest of this thread when I can reach a computer instead of just my
iPhone.
This thread will also be locked.
DavidMorton on June 24, 2009
At Chattarati, 1+1 does not always equal 2.
If you're here looking for a certain discussion that occurred while John and I were away today, you're out of luck. Those comments have been removed for the time being. At some point, they may reappear, but they will be edited.
We hate having to edit or moderate any discussion on this site, but it had to be done.
Zack Littlefield on June 24, 2009
Sorry John - you can delete my last post as well since it was a response to Allison on the rumor. Didn't mean to stir up the pot so much today.
Take care,
Z