Re-elect
Jordan H. F. "Jody"
FIORE
Taunton Municipal Council
FIRST WE NEEDED HIS EDUCATION.
THEN WE NEEDED HIS EXPERIENCE.
NOW, WE NEED HIM.
Jordan Fiore is known as the “Dean of the City Council.” With fourteen years on the city council and six years on the school committee, plus decades of service in many community organizations, he has been around the scene a long time. He has said that he has an “edifice complex,” since he has helped to build five schools, an animal shelter, a DPW complex, a fire station, and to renovate a building for a police station. He helped bring GIS mapping to city government and this past year, he used Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday to raise Taunton’s spirit by dedicating a square where Lincoln spoke and the home of the general who guarded him at Gettysburg, got the Taunton High African-American Club to celebrate the freedom of the Emancipation Proclamation and got the school children of Taunton to raise nearly $3000 in pennies to help the families of our troops and veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
You’d think with twenty years in office and a strong track record for progress, Jody Fiore would have had enough of politics and that City Hall would have had enough of him. However, since his return to the council in the last election, being “the Dean” has meant more than just serving the longest. On a council that is contentious with each other and with the mayor, Jody is the one person they all trust. He can see both sides of most issues and, if he cannot be the leader who finds common ground, he isn’t afraid to stand alone, such as when he tried to keep part of the F. B. Rogers complex standing so that the city could benefit from grandfathering in developing the site and when he voted against the firing of Joshua Acerra because he thought that the process of his firing was as incompetent as the process of his hiring.
Also, with six years as the chairman of the council’s finance and salaries committee and five years as a member of the school committee’s finance and law committee, he knows the operations of the city’s finances as few do. As chairman of the council’s public property committee, he has worked with new Building Superintendent Wayne Walkden on making our school buildings and other public facilities safe for our children, our employees, and the public that uses our buildings. As a lawyer with a master’s degree in history, he understands our city’s past and how actions in the present can play out in the future. In these troubled times, we need someone with the vision to see the consequences of our current situation and the ability to adapt to changing times. That’s Jody Fiore in a nutshell and that’s why we still need him.
You’d think with twenty years in office and a strong track record for progress, Jody Fiore would have had enough of politics and that City Hall would have had enough of him. However, since his return to the council in the last election, being “the Dean” has meant more than just serving the longest. On a council that is contentious with each other and with the mayor, Jody is the one person they all trust. He can see both sides of most issues and, if he cannot be the leader who finds common ground, he isn’t afraid to stand alone, such as when he tried to keep part of the F. B. Rogers complex standing so that the city could benefit from grandfathering in developing the site and when he voted against the firing of Joshua Acerra because he thought that the process of his firing was as incompetent as the process of his hiring.
Also, with six years as the chairman of the council’s finance and salaries committee and five years as a member of the school committee’s finance and law committee, he knows the operations of the city’s finances as few do. As chairman of the council’s public property committee, he has worked with new Building Superintendent Wayne Walkden on making our school buildings and other public facilities safe for our children, our employees, and the public that uses our buildings. As a lawyer with a master’s degree in history, he understands our city’s past and how actions in the present can play out in the future. In these troubled times, we need someone with the vision to see the consequences of our current situation and the ability to adapt to changing times. That’s Jody Fiore in a nutshell and that’s why we still need him.
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