Urban News and Linkage - Peyton Wins Election edition
03/21/07 • Posted in: News, Politics by Joey Marchy 4 Comments »
It’s Tuesday night an I haven’t even looked at the election results, but I’m calling it for Peyton. I’m sure he won in a landslide. Congrats to him and his deep pocketed friends. They scared all willing competitors away with fear of wasting any campaign money raised to battle the well funded incumbent.
Personally I voted for Jackie Brown. It was a subversive, counter-culture, F-the-man move. I know. It was fun. Do I feel like I wasted my vote? No. Did I want Jackie Brown to be mayor. Hmmm…not really. I should have written Stephen Dare in for mayor.
On to the news!
District 7 Runoff! It’s Gaffney vs. Anderson. Anyone know when the runoff election is?
This Wednesday, March 21st at 6:30pm - the Jacksonville Carbon Neutral Initiative (or JCNI) will be hosting it’s weekly meeting at Inertia. Read more.
If you missed last month’s District Branding event at artwalk you can check out photos and a podcast. (Tip: Jaxopolitan)
Tha links
Incumbents win easily in city elections
Greening of Main: A failure in the making?
Littlepage points out issues facing mayor and council in the next 4 years
Vestals On The Rocks Art Show Recap
Jacksonville Roller Derby videos!
tags: jacksonville, vestal, roller derby, election 2007
Fuck way! I voted for Jackie Brown, too, and had the same good feeling doing so. Not that Peyton’s really done anything terrible that sticks out in my mind, but I am just not comfortable with a (another) white, oil-billionaire, (mostly) conservative guy running my government because no one can out fundraise him. That’s just me.
I got kind of the same vibe from Jackie Brown. The few times I heard her speak, it sounded as if she was reading from a Democratic Party talking-points memo. There were not a lot of original ideas or thinking, at least in my opinion. I tend to gravitate away from politicians who spend their time pointing out everything the “other guy” is doing wrong. I believe it attests to a lack of ideas on their own part.
Yeah, I don’t have much against Peyton, except for the fact that his decisions on downtown development seem to be more influenced by campaign contributors and what his friends think, than whats good for the city.
Hmmm, still, I think I go with lack of ideas rather than abundance of bad ideas (in general, this is not saying Peyton has an abundance of bad ideas).