I would like to start a non-inflammatory discussion of the issues at the heart of the 5th District. Please state your top three issues, and which candidate you think will best support that issue - one candidate may not be ideal for all three issues! Please limit your issues to those that will be faced to the supervisor rather than the candidate, those are the decisions that matter to me.
Hopefully this thread will be devoid of outside discussion with ad hominem (Maybe Barry can help to keep this clean).
Please keep the discussion to issues (e.g. water use, river mining, gang management), rather than things that may be less of an issue after a candidate is elected. I believe that many campaigns get lost in the campaign, rather than thinking ahead to the job that will be done after the campaign is over.
Thank you.
Sybil de Ville
10-18-2008, 10:52 PM
Here is a suggestion for framing one of your three questions. What we would like to hear from each of the supervisorial candidates is:
1. How should the Board of Supervisors espond to calls for regional groundwater management in relation to unincorporated County usage? There are statistics which document the amount of water used, and the amount of water needed to meet the current adopted general plans of all of the incorporated Cities in this region. But we know that there is a vast, unquanitified amount of water usage by existing and future residential, agricultural and industrial development in unincorporated areas. How can the regional needs be first assessed, then managed?
emvee
10-21-2008, 11:07 PM
There is only one issue in this or any election:
Does the candidate support and represent the interests of the people or of the money?
There are very few places in the USSA where the former is even in the realm of possibility.
This has been one of them.
Let's not blow it.
Zen Ben
10-22-2008, 12:13 PM
I would like to start a non-inflammatory discussion of the issues at the heart of the 5th District. Please state your top three issues, and which candidate you think will best support that issue - one candidate may not be ideal for all three issues! Please limit your issues to those that will be faced to the supervisor rather than the candidate, those are the decisions that matter to me.
Hopefully this thread will be devoid of outside discussion with ad hominem (Maybe Barry can help to keep this clean).
Please keep the discussion to issues (e.g. water use, river mining, gang management), rather than things that may be less of an issue after a candidate is elected. I believe that many campaigns get lost in the campaign, rather than thinking ahead to the job that will be done after the campaign is over.
Thank you.
OK. Here's a real, live question that would cleanly separate progressives from conventional business advocates.
County Community Impact Report
The City of Petaluma recently passed a so-called "Community Impact Report" (CIR) requirement for any large retail, hotel, or grocery over 25,000 sq. feet. Such a report would assess the fiscal and economic impacts of a project including new tax revenue, impacts on local business, the quality of jobs created including wages and benefits, the impacts on affordable housing, public costs such as police and fire, emergency room services, and other health care costs. Do you support such a community impact report for proposed large commercial developments in the County of Sonoma as part of the planning and approvals process?