Comments on: Decatur Metro to Host First Ever Decatur City Commission Online Debate

By: CSD Snowflake

CSD Snowflake — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:56:54 +0000

Got me. Makes it a little easier to follow the race!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:07:46 +0000

That’s weird. Why file and pay the fee if you’re not a serious candidate? You can do that for free.

By: CSD Snowflake

CSD Snowflake — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:49:09 +0000

My understanding is that the School Board contested positions are down to four candidates in two races:

District 1: Garrett Goebel and Marc Wisniewski
At Large: Rob Pope and Valerie Wilson

Bernadette Wilson is running unopposed for the District 2 seat. Everyone else must have dropped out.

So it would only be 4 candidates! Don’t know if they’d be interested in whatever you have time to do but I say go for it!

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:05:08 +0000

School board would be much more difficult to execute in a similar fashion, due to the sheer number of candidates. Plus I’m pretty time-strapped as it is.

I AM willing to open up a thread where school board candidates could take questions from citizens and whatnot, but it would be much more like a regular comment section and wouldn’t be as much as an “event.” Let me know if that interests anyone.

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:58:24 +0000

Rick, here's a link to the voting district map. FYI...It's a pdf file. Boykin and Radford are running in District 1 Williams and Garrett are running in District 2 The "city wide" or "at-large" seat is currently held by Pro-tem Baskett, who was just re-elected two years ago.