Kiwanis Forum

If true on the Nagy/Mulligan debate challenge, am surprised Mulligan accepted. In the past, he gave me the impression that he didn't have to do things like that, being so assured of his winning the election on MMF money backing and name recognition each time he ran. Wonder why he changed his mind this time. Wonder if it will really happen or is just some passification rhetoric on his part?

Now, I would really like to see a Presta/Mort debate. Would shed some light on how much Mort really knows about the issues as opposed to the PR gibberish/rose-colored crap we often hear from her about the city. How about it Ms. Mort. Are you prepared to debate the issues of the city?

acclaro wrote: ... get out the playbook that gets out 10,000 voters who will vote for you, and get them to the polls. ...

Hmm...perhaps I'll talk to my campaign manager about getting a van to make shuttle runs between some of the local taverns and the polls???

I attended the debate yesterday evening took some video that will be posted later.

My thoughts are that all the candidates did a great job. Mr. Nagy brought up a couple of good points about two brothers running and possible being on council together. I am sure there is nothing legally wrong with this, but to me it just doesn’t look right. I read that the Mayor accepted the invite to debate Paul, but actually what he said sounds like a good idea, I will think about that. That means no I think. I would love to see it and MUSA would be there for sure.

 

A few of the questions were pointless; issue 2 was a waste of 10 minutes as no one really answered the question. The section 8 talk was, just what it always has been from current members …talk. I do agree with Mr. Pickard that there is no easy fix, none that will save the city over night. I also agree with him on the downtown topic. Certain nights you drive downtown and it is jammed packed with people. But it doesn’t change the fat that on the same street or over one street is some of the biggest crime areas in town. I drive Central almost daily and see some strange things going on.

While I do think there should be a time limit on responses, some of the issues being addressed cannot be answered in such a short time. Not sure how you fix this, but I would really like to hear more from each person running. I would like to see people ask questions direct to a candidate fill out a card walk to the podium and ask away.

In my opinion there are some really good candidates running, and some that have no business being up there at all. I am hoping that at the next forum the questions asked will be tougher and get to the heart  of what is wrong in this town. 

Mike, when I saw the fact it had cost the city about $1.6 Mm, it just seemed the city wasn't looking at ways to mitigate their finnacial exposure. I comprehend the legal aspects Mr. Adkins made reference associated with a public entity getting the property tax break, but between Miller Brewer in Trenton, MUM, AK Steel, the Atrium, all those businesses in West Chester, I would think there is a manner to unloaf Weatherwax and at least recover the debt service and income lost. Goodness, AK used to have a park, maybe have it bought by them for their employees in Middletown and West Chester, great recruiting tool. It surely isn't benefiting the city and only a handful of its citizens. Perhaps Butler Cty would want in the action---a county public course, not a city? Where's the creative thinking here?

With absolutely no disrepect intended to Mr. Mulligan, as he is a bright man, and all, why would a debate be necessary? If you read his campaign literature done in the Notre Dame green (go Irish!), it says he is a man with standing in the community, he is educated, he comes from a good fa,ily, and he cares about Middletown. But what has in he done in four years that is not addresses in his campaign literature? He says nothing about an accomplishment of any sort, but vote for him because he has standing and is educated.