In case you had better things to do Friday evening, you can still watch this month’s editorial roundtable on What Matters. Host Cathy Lewis was joined by Virginia Pilot editorial writer Don Luzzatto, Daily Press political reporter Kimball Payne, Bearing Drift’s Brian Kirwin, and yours truly.
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VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
“We can’t have a situation where we have someone who has no experience whatsoever from being one heartbeat away from having her finger on that little red button.”
So why would you want someone with even less experience with his finger on the little red button? (Especially someone who is friends with an unrepentant anti-American terrorist?)
“I’m a firm believer [that] local elections should be held in November. I think it increases voter turnout. Yes, it makes it much more difficult for the candidates who are running, because the candidates now have to do things differently, but when I look at Norfolk’s turnout for their May elections, and we get 14,000 people out of 110,000 registered voters, then that is the minority dictating for the majority…”
What non-sense. It is not the minority dictating for the majority, but the majority simply not caring enough to vote. Do you really think the people who don’t care in May are going to care in November? Do you really want people who don’t care to pick your leaders?
I’d rather have my leaders selected by a few concerned people than by a bunch of people who can’t be bothered to vote in May.