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2009 Elections: Council Candidate Jerry Bittner’s Answers

I emailed questions to all the candidates and incumbents for Jacksonville City Council.
Below are the answers from Mr. Jerry Bittner (Ward 2), who is running against Councilwoman Reva Sullivan. The answers are cut and pasted directly from the email and contain no altering of text, except for format (bulletized the questions and indented the [...]

2009 Elections: Council Candidate James Bryan’s Answers

I emailed questions to all the candidates and incumbents for Jacksonville City Council.
Below are the answers from Mr. James Bryan (At Large). The answers are cut and pasted directly from the email and contain no altering of text, except for format (bulletized the questions and indented the answers).

-Water is becoming a less plentiful, but more [...]

2009 Elections: Council Candidate Bob Warden’s Answers

I emailed questions to all the candidates and incumbents for Jacksonville City Council.
Below is the response from Bob Warden (At Large). The response is cut and pasted directly from the email and contain no altering of text.
I’m responding to this because I’ve heard that your blogs are balanced. I’ve read several [...]

2009 Elections: Council Candidate Kevin O’Connor’s Answers

I emailed questions to all the candidates and incumbents for Jacksonville City Council.
Mr. O’Connor has not submitted answers, but I did speak with him briefly on the telephone today. Below is a quick synopsis of our conversation.
Mr. O’Connor believes in taking government “back to basics”, meaning providing the primary services (police, fire, water, sewer etc). [...]

2009 Elections: Councilman Jerome Willingham’s Answers

I emailed questions to all the candidates and incumbents for Jacksonville City Council yesterday.
Below are the answers from Councilman Jerome Willingham (Ward 1), who is running unopposed for election. The answers are cut and pasted directly from the email and contain no altering of text, except for format (bulletized the questions and indented the answers).

1– [...]

2009 Elections: JDNews Candidate Profiles Available

The Jacksonville Daily News has posted profiles of the candidates for Jacksonville City Council. For your convenience, I’ve linked the individual profiles below (The JDNews page is a bit squirrelly and quiet a bit confusing…)
Incumbents:

Reva Sullivan (Onslow) (Ward 2)
Randy Thomas (Onslow) (At Large)
Alva M. Williams (Onslow) (At Large)
Jerome Willingham (Onslow) (Ward 1)

Challengers:

Jerry A. Bittner (Onslow) [...]

2009 Election: Questions for Jacksonville City Council Candidates

The 2009 municipal elections are just more than a month away and there’s been nary a word from the majority of candidates running for Jacksonville’s City Council.
Below is a list of questions I will be sending to all the candidates within a few weeks. Give them a read and add your own in the [...]

An Assortment of Dissociated and Disjointed Thoughts

I provide my usual and all-too-often needed apologies for being a less-than-stellar blogger.
This post is a mixed-bag of stuff that’s been floating around my head these few weeks.
The race for Jacksonville’s City Council
There hasn’t been much public campaigning. Mr. Hunter Hadley, Jr (At-Large) has yard signs posted. Councilwoman Reva Sullivan (Ward 2) is hosting [...]

2009 Elections: If I Were Running for Jacksonville City Council

Filing for 2009’s municipal elections are over and the slate of candidates for November’s ballot is complete. It’s time to stop guessing who will pony up to run and prognosticate about the campaigning.
Since there’s not much campaigning to analyze so far, I figure that it’d be useful to lay a baseline…Which is how I would [...]

2009 Elections: Jacksonville City Council Candidates

The filing deadline for 2009’s municipal election has passed and the final listing of candidates is available at the Onslow County Board of Elections site.
The incumbents:

Jerome Willingham (Ward 1)
Reva Sullivan (Ward 2)
Alva Williams (At-Large)
Randy Thomas (At-Large)

The challengers:

Jerry Bittner (Ward 2)
Hunter Hadley, Jr. (At-Large)
Robert Warden (At-Large)
James Bryan (At-Large)
Lori Ready (At-Large)
Kevin O’Connor (At-Large)

You’ll notice that Mr. [...]

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