Designs On Civil Service

Those who’ve worked with or known Mr. Leverett for any amount of time would have likely noticed his thoughtfulness concerning government, civic leadership and  potential service in office. In this time when unique leaders and bold ideas are needed on the national and local level, some of the core concepts he carries into both of those arenas may be the future foundation of such pursuits.

For Nashville

Our city’s leaders should be visionaries with new ideas, not just responders to email and phone calls. They should also be protectors of the common Nashvillian, and not simply respond to lobbyist pressures and donor’s priorities.

• Each District Councilmember should focus 60/40 on District/City leadership. Our town is too big for fiefdoms.
• We need to reduce the number of Council Districts and seats in Metro Nashville to 20-25.
• To ensure an average person can afford to join the Council, pay should increase from $15k part-time to $40k full-time.
• Our Council must find ways to defeat the oppressive TN State Legislature’s frequent interference into Nashville’s sovereignty.
• The time for aggressive affordable housing laws, to combat developer and landlord greed, has long been upon us.
• A realistic timeline for bold public transit solutions should be closer to reality than several decades.
• Parks, greenspace, consistent progressive improvement in recycling should be core values for every leader in Metro.
• Leaders should be vanguards for responsible and fair revitalization – not mindless gentrification.
• We should end the preservation of outdated and irrelevant activities at the Nashville Fairgrounds.
• Priority should be given to “disruptive” enterprises like Google Fiber, Uber, and Lyft by leaders – not to lobbies from outdated and stubborn legacy business models.
• All donations to Metro campaigns should be visible through an easily-accessible public record.

For America

We’ve recently borne witness to a nationwide con-game in the name of “populism.” While the misrepresentation of such is making consistent headlines, there are many ideas Americans could embrace in a platform of true populism.

• We should pass a Constitutional amendment to ban lobbyists.
• The People also need an amendment to eliminate gerrymandering.
• Our nation must strip all corporations of individual rights.
• In education policy, we should require Civics classes – the same as 3 R’s.
• Congress must ban bills with pork and unrelated legislative goals.
• States should have to ratify pay raises for any federal office.
• It is time to federally mandate proportional Electoral College representation or do away with it entirely.

For Humanity

As a universal value, our nation should actively pursue an agenda of fairness and equality – for Americans and our brothers and sisters all over the world. Our cultural obsession with religion, gender, orientation, nationality, color or creed has done nothing to forward our best ideas, and there is no room in modern society for hate based upon those factors.

Current Project – Police Oversight

After recently researching and producing a superior MLK Blvd proposal to Metro Nashville, hijacked and neutered by Council-At-Large Sharon Hurt, Lucas is back at it with his bid to sit on the Community Oversight Board – helping to police the police in Nashville. Learn more here.