No time to post a full report but we did get most of the candidates for SA Mayor out to the Lodge of the Great Northwest tonight.
Present were, Lauro Bustamante, Julian Castro, Diane Cibrian, Trish DeBerry-Mejia, Napolean Madrid, and Rhett Smith. The no shows were busy or, ahem, otherwise detained.
In addition to a good selection of candidates, thankfully, we had a very nice turn-out for the event. By the discussions taking place afterwards, the clear leaders in this forum were Mr. Castro and Ms. DeBerry-Mejia. I'll post a full report tomorrow.
Were you at the debate? Do you have an opinion about the event? Tell me about it or leave a comment here.
UPDATE: On the News4 WOAI 10 PM broadcast, Randy Beamer seemed to report that the GNW would be hosting a follow-up debate with the "top" candidates next week. I'm pretty sure Mr. Beamer confused our HOA with someone else.
So yesterday my sister got her picture taken with Matt Lauer from NBC's Today Show while they were broadcasting from the University of Tampa (she works nearby).
I'm thinking, while, that is kinda cool - something you can brag about, I can do better!
So today, in an unrelated event, Kim Fischer, (yes; that Kim Fischer) tracked me down through readers of the Blog (thanks Braun Station West), and we helped with a story they are doing on proposed changes to the curfew and how it might help with taggers.
I have to tell you, we probably took more of their time than they expected because we couldn't find anyone who wanted to go on camera. Then, because of Kim's professional and cool handling of us, we all ended up talking and painting and the whole nine yards. They probably had to edit out lots of the things we had to say!
By the way, Cameraman Frank told us they would edit the footage to make us look thin and pretty, so if we all look old and plump, it was poor editing!
UPDATE: News4 put together a really nice story and for the "man on the street" response to the curfew issue, my wife Eva ended up getting all the face time and the speaking role. Several of our A-Team members could be seen painting a fence with Eva in the voice over talking about taggers and such. I thought it all really worked well. You can find the video and people's comments to the story here.
Present were, Lauro Bustamante, Julian Castro, Diane Cibrian, Trish DeBerry-Mejia, Napolean Madrid, and Rhett Smith. The no shows were busy or, ahem, otherwise detained.
In addition to a good selection of candidates, thankfully, we had a very nice turn-out for the event. By the discussions taking place afterwards, the clear leaders in this forum were Mr. Castro and Ms. DeBerry-Mejia. I'll post a full report tomorrow.
