{"id":6439,"date":"2019-01-17T22:36:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T02:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=6439"},"modified":"2019-01-17T22:36:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T02:36:02","slug":"dan-gilmartin-and-westland-mayor-william-wild-talk-lame-duck-governor-whitmer-on-the-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2019\/01\/17\/dan-gilmartin-and-westland-mayor-william-wild-talk-lame-duck-governor-whitmer-on-the-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Gilmartin and Westland Mayor William Wild Talk Lame Duck, Governor Whitmer on ‘The W’"},"content":{"rendered":"

We here at SaveMICity.org highly recommend that you check out a new interview <\/a>with the Michigan Municipal League\u2019s Dan Gilmartin and Westland Mayor William Wild. The 15-minute talk on \u201cIn the W with Mayor Wild\u201d covers an array of city-related topics, including term limits, the craziness of Lame Duck late last year, fixing the roads, how Governor Gretchen Whitmer seems to understand the needs of communities and so much more.<\/p>\n

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League CEO Dan Gilmartin (right) talks with Westland Mayor William Wild the cable show “In the W with Mayor Wild”.<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s really a great interview on Westland\u2019s \u201cW\u201d cable TV show hosted by Mayor Wild, who is also a League board member, and featuring Gilmartin, League CEO and Executive Director. It\u2019s available on YouTube here<\/a> and Dan\u2019s segment in the show starts just before the 26-minute mark and runs about 15 minutes. Definitely worth your time. The full 39-minute show is also compelling as it focuses on the recent Lame Duck session and what it means for communities like Westland.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the description of the show from the city: We have a new Governor, new elected leaders in Congress and on the state level. You may be wondering: What died and what was in play during Michigan\u2019s Lame Duck session and what do all the changes in Lansing mean to you? That\u2019s exactly what Mayor Wild talked about with his guests. Bob Kowsowski is a former State Representative. Jordyn Sellek is the Executive Director of the Conference of Western Wayne and Dan Gilmartin is the CEO and Executive Director of the Michigan Municipal League.<\/em><\/p>\n

Please check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,26,27,31,35,36,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-reform","category-municipal-finance","category-municipal-services","category-placemaking","category-revenue-sharing-2","category-road-funding-2","category-savemicity","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDan Gilmartin and Westland Mayor William Wild Talk Lame Duck, Governor Whitmer on 'The W' - 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