Dear Indiana University O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs:
Dean Siân Mooney
Professor Kurt Zorn
Professor Emeritus Barry Rubin
Associate Professor Craig Johnson
Fmr. Mayor Paul Helmke
US Representative Lee Hamilton
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of SPEA, let’s invest in the greater good. Let’s invest in Democracy.
Until I can get people to make my problem their problem, it’s still my problem. I have plenty of social and political capital but it lacks liquidity. I need to liquidate my investment in my MPA in order to invest in Hope and the American Dream. I need you to back me up.
Please watch or listen to the following to tie together this website. This website is what I’ve watched unfold since leaving SPEA. I need to liquidate the equity that rests in my education. I need to use you as a reference. People won’t listen to me because I don’t have a title. It’s their free time and a whole new language. If you vouch for me that what I’m saying makes sense, we can explain the “all of us” side of the Table. Will you please give me something to post?
I owe so much to IU: my father’s MBA (‘61), my mother’s memorial scholarship, the Indiana University School of Nursing Jacqueline Beretta Dwyer Award (est. 1984) and my MPA (1994.) I want to give back to the school that believes in the greater good. This is a way to mean what we say.
Will you please help me start BuyingItBack? We need a platform for independent municipal financial advisors to create transparency and fiscally responsible public financial policy. If anyone can pull this off, we can.
Sincerely,
Leslie Dwyer, MPA
Public Policy Analysis & Public Finance
IU-Bloomington 1994
BA, Economics, DePauw 1990
P.S. Feel free to share my transcript with anyone who asks.
Uses of Funds
My Plea
The economy is made up of people in the profitable/competitive/free market (we all win or no deal) and a ready, willing, available workforce ready to get back into the for profit side. Government is meant to treat us as equals. Unemployment is not a market failure. Redlining was. That is the gap we have to close to create a robust, recession-proof city.
Please hear me out. Charlotte sets the benchmark for the income gap and for replicating redlining with “incentives” that did not change economic behavior. I need your help implementing the alternative so we close the income gap for all of us. Let’s create Independent Municipal Financial Advisors.
Audio (It’s easier to understand with the visual version.)