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June 29th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Mimi,
The buzz is not about who the challengers are but rather to not vote for any of the incumbents. I know it is not a large portion of the population, but I have had two random neighbors walk up to me that I have never spoken politics with and they said vote em all out!! It was interesting to me. They were all familiar with the Andy Sheehan thing and all Bernie supporters. We are going to try to plan a neighborhood party for some/all the challengers.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Vote ‘em all out is the usual rallying cry, but in order to vote ‘em all out someone else needs to be voted in.
If there isn’t enough interest by potential candidates to even hold a preliminary election in the past couple of cycles how are you going to vote anyone out? Not having a preliminary gives incumbants an advantage as does the city’s practice of listing incumbants on the ballot first.
Even when there is a preliminary election it still favors incumbants because the city preliminary is held in October, not September as is the case in most cities, cutting down on the time challengers have to shore up their support to make a run at the incumbants in the general election.
Running at-large is difficult and expensive and quite frankly no longer in the best interest of the city.
If you want interest and challengers in city elections then we have to change from an at-large city council to one that is dominated by district councilors with only a few at-large councilors.
On the SC side, people are expressing outrage over the Regina issue, but how is she going to be voted out if only the incumbants run?
June 29th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
I would love to run, but I am honestly just not sure of the process.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Kim, it IS fun..particularly in hindsight (hard work in the muck of it all). Excellent experience, and likely none that you ever have had..feel free to email me, Lynne or Mimi.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Other CC challengers are Syed Hussain and Pat Stratton and Patrick Murphy.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Thanks Kathy.
I really look forward to meeting a lot of these folks and giving them an opportunity to get heard.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Lynne
I look forward to meeting you and Thank-you for the opportunity to be heard
Paul Belley