Chip Flowers stopped by the May meeting of the Civic League of New Castle County to chat about his candidacy for Treasurer. When he took the floor, he made a pretty strong impression. The Civic League presents a tough crowd of vocally skeptical, long-time watchdogs of the powers-that-be in our state (this group has a significant amount of institutional memory too: at 52, I am typically the youngest person in the room by 15 years or so) but Chip more than held his own.
His ideas struck a chord with the group. The conversation flowed between procurements, contracts, cost overruns, clean hands and a criteria to rate bids that includes a totality test: the evaluation of the true economic impact of contract awards that takes into consideration whether the work would be providing jobs to Delawareans.
You can check out more of Chip's ideas at his web site: www.chipflowers.com. I ribbed him about whether or not he was setting himself up for a turf war with other state agencies or departments under the executive's purview and his response was reasonable: we are going to need all hands on deck to dig us out of the economic crisis we are facing if we want to be able to continue to provide services to Delawareans.
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Chip comes to the table with a broad set of talents and education, an energetic enthusiasm and a plethora of established working relationships with "global and Fortune 500 clients, including Harvard University and Delaware corporate leaders such as DuPont, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Bank of America, Barclay’s Bank Delaware, ING Bank, FSB and the Buccini/Pollin Group".
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1 comments:
Well said. You can have a state treasurer who likes to count money, one who wants to write checks on time, or an innovator with fresh ideas for maximizing our investments. Sounds like a no-brainer to me.
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