Dennis Donohue

Mayor of Salinas Dennis Donohue addressed the Salinas Alisal Rotary September 9, 2010

by suitormedia on Sep 10, 2010

In 2006, when I ran for mayor of Salinas for the first time, I called on Salinians to Imagine A Great City. Back then we faced a declining economy, and rising crime. Back then there were many times when I heard some version of, "'Imagine A Great City'? How about we just fix the city we have?"

But I trusted that in their hearts, even the most skeptical of us believed, as I did, that yes, we could fix things - but we could also do more. While working on our immediate challenges, we could raise our heads and aim for the city we wanted to live in, thrive in, and hand on with pride to the next generation.

We believed in that vision, because we had seen it before in real life. Salinas has seen great days - days of the Green Gold Rush, days when Salinas was, per capita, the wealthiest city in America, built by hard-working people from across the country and from around the world. And we believed in that vision because even at the toughest of times, this is a...Read More >>