gardner votes, we get to help!
seems like every time you turn around there’s another election. tuesday in ks is election day and gardner will be narrowing its field of mayoral and council candidates for the general election. on tuesday, i was lucky enough to moderate the candidate forum and meet the men and women who want to serve there. the event was sponsored by the gardner news and the chamber.
i thought one particular question was interesting. so was the reaction from candidates. to start off the mayoral round of the discussion, an audience question: are any candidates behind in the taxes, do any have warrants out, don’t live in gardner, etc.
the reaction from the candidates was a little surprising, i thought, since there have been so many tax troubles for federal politicians lately. one of the men who wants to be mayor actually asked: “is that a question?”
wonder what the audience member who wrote it thought of the response. wonder who they will vote for.
anyway, we see so many issues that affect us all, it’s always refreshing to see local debates and public meetings and what happens at street level to make out lives and communities better.
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