DCWC/WCRC candidate forum – March 18, 2009 (part 1)
Part One will cover the ground rules and Mayoral portion of the forum; Part Two will deal with the City Council races.
It makes for an unwieldy post title, but tonight’s candidate forum was a joint effort between the Democratic Club of Wicomico County and the organization I belong to, the Wicomico County Republican Club. As far as how the show was performed, the two bodies split questions down the middle (two from each group for each race, plus two from the audience) and moderating duties were shared between the DCWC’s Michael Farlow and WCRC’s Dustin Mills. Perhaps the only mild complaint was registered by District 2 Council candidate Muir Boda, who is a card-carrying member of the Libertarian Party here in Maryland.
Tonight’s forum involved all six remaining candidates in Salisbury’s upcoming election, but a former candidate made news prior to the event by endorsing one of his opponents.
In stating that District 1 challenger Cynthia Polk “offers the people of District 1 the attention and the change they hunger for”, Tim Chaney claimed that the change was made clear by the fact that over 2/3 of the primary votes went against the challenger. (It’s worthy of noting though that each voter was allowed to select two choices in the March 3 primary election.) Chaney also charged that incumbent Shanie Shields has allowed “Taj Mahal” buildings to go up “while District 1 neighborhoods are left to crumble” and endorsed Polk “with both my head and my heart.”
The format of the forum itself was quite simple: each set of candidates was to have a two-minute opening statement, two minutes apiece to answer the four questions selected from the respective clubs, and one minute apiece to answer the two audience questions prior to a two-minute closing statement. It made for a briskly-paced evening; all told the forum lasted just 70 minutes.
Eastern Shore Political Buzz Examiner
Syndicate
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
-
-
-
Advertise with monoblogue and you’ll reach a lot of people!
Click on the photo for details.
Link to Maryland Democratic Party
In the interest of being fair and balanced, I provide this service to readers. But before you click on the picture below, just remember their message:
Locals flock to monoblogue
Click on the photo for details on advertising opportunities.
Please note that the opinions expressed on monoblogue are not necessarily those of the Wicomico County Republican Party Central Committee, of which I'm a member. (But they probably should be.)
