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Entries in Mayor (1)

Thursday
Mar112010

What We DON'T Know About the Candidates

I attended the Candidate Forum at the Metro Dem meeting last night. It was, overall, a good forum -- we got to hear from all the candidates that showed (where was Burrell?), and each candidate got to give an opening and closing statement. No big news, really, and not too many sound bites. Connie Marshall delivered one of the most striking -- asked what she would have done differently if she had been mayor since merger, she responded that if she were Mayor Jer, the first thing she would do would be to terminate herself. (To which Jim King replied, "I think he already has.")

After it was over, though, I thought about what we DIDN'T learn about the candidates last night. Here's a list of what we don't know that could hurt us come May:

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