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OK, unless you guys are receiving a lot of e-mail messages from people who don't want their suggestions publicly displayed, we need to get this started.

Wouldn't expect that all of these questions necessarily be asked, but here are a series of questions related to an issue the council has faced fairly recently.

QUESTIONS FOR GREENSBORO CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES:

1. What is your own personal position/opinion about the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission's work?

2. How did/would you vote concerning a resolution to support the commission's efforts? (And why did/would you vote that way?)

3. If not the Klan-Nazi/Communist Workers Party shoot-out, what other local event or incident (that has occurred locally within the last 50 years) would you select as one our community might benefit from examining through a "truth and reconciliation" process? (And why do you select this event or incident?)

I know it's early, but it's not too early for us to start generating questions for candidates.

It'd also be cool for candidates themselves to contribute questions they would like to answer and have other candidates address.

Why do you want to become (or continue to be) an elected official?

Why would it be in voters' best interests to vote for you instead of your opponents?

CANDIDATES CURRENTLY SERVING AS ELECTED OFFICIALS:

If you could go back and change one vote, one decision, or one action that you've made as an elected official, what would you choose to change? (And why?)

CANDIDATES WHO ARE NOT ALREADY IN OFFICE:

If you could change the outcome of one recent decision or vote by the governing body you hope to join, what would you choose to change? (And why?)

What role do you see for blogging in your campaign or in your role as an elected official (if you win)?

What one thing makes you proudest about our community?

What one thing about our community are you least proud?

What is your position and/or opinion about using incentives to ensure that businesses choose to locate or expand in our community?

What are up to three things you would cut from the budget?

What one question would you like to ask your opponents and have them answer?

What personal information about yourself would you like to share with voters?

INTERRUPTION:

I'm not trying to dominate this thread, and for the moment, I'll stop adding questions. (I know what I've posted above looks like the saddest form of trolling: non-stop trolling by your lonesome.)

But the original post has been up a few days with NO responses.

John Robinson tried to get a similar thread going, and it too attracted no questions or concerns to share with the candidates.

I made a similar post on my own blog: same results.

This is my attempt to jump-start things.

HARDY,

DID you ever stop to think that folks don't really care because they feel that no matter what questions they ask all they will get will be the SOS. Cutting 3 things from the budget is a utopian thought, perhaps it should read what 3 things are you going to add to the budget in order to buy more votes.
Did you stop to think that the reason folks don't care is that they feel no matter who they vote for it will be the same crowd re-elected or a mirror image of the very ones who need replaced.

G'boro has not changed in the years since I left. People felt the same way then (99) and it appears that nothing has changed.
I got these answers which I presented in question form to you from folks when I would go out to vote. They also looked at me like I was crazy when I did go out to vote. My vote usually was not on the winning side in any of the Gilford Co races or in the G'boro city races but by golly I voted even it was only a token vote against the status quo.