Courage and Moral Leadership

COURAGE AND MORAL LEADERSHIP

NAME CONSTANTINE WISENYUY

PAD 515

PROFESSOR’S NAME DR ANGELA AGBOLI

MAY 4 2012

“I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear” Nelson Mandela

Michael R. Bloomberg is the city of New 108th Mayor and has been in office for almost nine years. Bloomberg is the first Mayor to amend the New York City’s term limit law, to allow him run for a third term in 2009. Since 2002, he has been the Mayor of that city. Bloomberg has a net worth of $ 18.1 billion in 2011, and is also the 13th richest person in the United States. As Mayor New York, Bloomberg declined to receive a city salary, accepting a remuneration of $1.00 annually. He is supposedly the founder of and 88% owner of Bloomberg L.P., a financial news and information services media company.

Once a lifelong Democrat before seeking office he later switched to the Republican Party and now an Independent. Despite his followers and outpour for his continued leadership abilities, he represents the Independent Party. As the Mayor, he has had the courage to take on some of the toughest issues facing millions of New Yorkers namely Budget cuts, smoke free zone and gay marriage issues just to name this few has brought him less support. However with the courage of a lion and moral leadership Mayor Bloomberg has prevailed in his leadership role. Purnick (2009)

While the city of New York projected budget for fiscal year 2012 is about 9.3 billion and Bloomberg found ways to cut some of his expenditure. Unfortunately, public safety, sanitation, and education are amongst some of the agencies that are going to receive some of the bigger cuts. New Yorkers thought agencies that were “less important” could be cut but after my research I understood why.

Most monies are sectioned off by the larger and smaller cuts. There are agencies that...