This Sunday’s On the Record will feature six* of the candidates for mayor in Suffolk this November. This is the first direct election of the mayor and the candidates – incumbent Linda Johnson, Roger Leonard, Dwight Nixon, Tom Powell, Andy Damiani and Mike Debranski – will discuss whether the current administration is managing the city’s finances well. In Friday’s Virginian Pilot, this very topic was discussed, with Mayor Johnson claiming to have rescued the city’s finances while her opponents say she is exaggerating. Ought to be an interesting debate.
Catch OTR at noon on WVEC. If you miss the airing, it will be available on the website on Monday.
* – the seventh candidate, Deborah Wahlstrom, who is running a write-in campaign, was not included in the taping.
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Why is Obama recruiting the ex-felon demographic to wedge-in his take-over of Virginia?
Seem a little too cynical to me.
Here’s today’s AP story that confirms it:
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081004/ap_on_el_pr/felons_voting;_ylt=AuIex4Q.IBQu1kBbiiFOrJKs0NUE
mike – what does that have to do with the Suffolk mayor’s race?