What local issues are most important to you?

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Permalink Reply by djsmith9 on October 25, 2009 at 9:59pm

The "let them eat cake" attitude of the mayor and city council have become painfully obvious in the last few months; the city racking up a bill of $20,000 for a few nights stay in Washington D.C. at the height of the economic crash; Mayor Saffo vociferously defending it in the recent CONA forum; Mayor Saffo bragging about keeping up with the agenda he set in 2006 while we now have failed construction projects sitting idle around the city because the construction companies went bankrupt. He may be keeping up with his agenda but no one else can! But why should he care? He can always just annex more tax payers in to keep his budget in the black because he's a "good business man".

What bothers me is that he thinks like a real estate developer because he acts like a landlord, and by that I mean the "Lord of our Land".

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Permalink Reply by Dana E. Page on October 29, 2009 at 11:07pm

Too bad the newspaper has already picked who they will endorse before the election even started. The ideal Red-Star (Star-News) candidate is 1) pro-annexation, 2) pro-convention center 3) pro-overdevelopment (urban sprawl), and 4) willing to spend our tax dollars on businesses outside of Wilmingwood. Currently 80% of the city's spending is with businesses outside of Wilmingwood.

The incumbents will walk back into office thanks to the lack of coverage of the challengers in the local Red-Star. The incumbents have been pushed all through the campaign, but this is nothing new in Wilmingwood. I have seen it for the past 12 elections. Why should the paper be expected to change now?

Dana Page, Candidate for Wilmington City Council 2009.

djsmith9 said:

The "let them eat cake" attitude of the mayor and city council have become painfully obvious in the last few months; the city racking up a bill of $20,000 for a few nights stay in Washington D.C. at the height of the economic crash; Mayor Saffo vociferously defending it in the recent CONA forum; Mayor Saffo bragging about keeping up with the agenda he set in 2006 while we now have failed construction projects sitting idle around the city because the construction companies went bankrupt. He may be keeping up with his agenda but no one else can! But why should he care? He can always just annex more tax payers in to keep his budget in the black because he's a "good business man".

What bothers me is that he thinks like a real estate developer because he acts like a landlord, and by that I mean the "Lord of our Land".

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Permalink Reply by Dana E. Page on November 5, 2009 at 11:42pm

DJ you need to do the work Saffo and his people do every election cycle. If you do not do the work to cahnge the status do not grip about it!

Money talks and you know what walks.

Saffo and his slate deserve what they won. They worked for it!

You have to give the devil his due!

Dana E. Page said:

Too bad the newspaper has already picked who they will endorse before the election even started. The ideal Red-Star (Star-News) candidate is 1) pro-annexation, 2) pro-convention center 3) pro-overdevelopment (urban sprawl), and 4) willing to spend our tax dollars on businesses outside of Wilmingwood. Currently 80% of the city's spending is with businesses outside of Wilmingwood.

The incumbents will walk back into office thanks to the lack of coverage of the challengers in the local Red-Star. The incumbents have been pushed all through the campaign, but this is nothing new in Wilmingwood. I have seen it for the past 12 elections. Why should the paper be expected to change now?

Dana Page, Candidate for Wilmington City Council 2009.

djsmith9 said:

The "let them eat cake" attitude of the mayor and city council have become painfully obvious in the last few months; the city racking up a bill of $20,000 for a few nights stay in Washington D.C. at the height of the economic crash; Mayor Saffo vociferously defending it in the recent CONA forum; Mayor Saffo bragging about keeping up with the agenda he set in 2006 while we now have failed construction projects sitting idle around the city because the construction companies went bankrupt. He may be keeping up with his agenda but no one else can! But why should he care? He can always just annex more tax payers in to keep his budget in the black because he's a "good business man".

What bothers me is that he thinks like a real estate developer because he acts like a landlord, and by that I mean the "Lord of our Land".

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