Comments on: Review: OH-10 City Club Democratic Primary Debate, w/audio, video links

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:59:20 +0000

Thanks for sharing that, Gloria – I hope you had fun being there! I wish I could have gone, but home on the couch worked out just fine.

I really like your water question – that is very much an elephant in the living room – and we know how much water they need.

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By: Gloria Ferris

Gloria Ferris — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:14:25 +0000

Jill-

I was there raised my hand received the nod from the woman in red with the microphone thought I would be second behind a man who was standing beside the woman who had the question, but lo and behold she moved on to another part of the room leaving me to wonder what happened. She wandered back to get the man that I thought I was behind and then Dan said “one last question” and it went to the other side of the room.

To be fair, the set up of round tables with very little room between them was hardly an easy venue for questions from the floor, and I think a lot of people were just not willing to make much of an effort to ask a question.

I had three questions one about education, one about water, and one about small business. If I had made it to the microphone I would have asked the one about “water being the next oil” and how would they as members of Congress protect our resource from other areas of the country when many of the congresspeople from very dry areas are saying that we should all share and compromise on the issue of water.

If I had asked about education, I am afraid it would have been much too long and i would have been told by Dan to sit down. Just too many issues and too many things that need changed.

Thanks Jill for this recap.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:41:53 +0000

From the inbox:

“Your analysis of the 10th Congressional debate was dead on. Dennis is a little looney, but so polished as a politician. Barbara Ann Ferris surprised me! I could vote for her. Tom O’Grady is my mayor and I wanted to ask him why our roads suck. Get them fixed and we’ll talk about Congress. Cimperman turns me off. And Rosemary Palmer was such a disappointment. She spoke with hesitation in her voice and that gave the impression that she is a hesitant person. I knew her pretty well years ago and she was a force to be reckoned with. I expected so much more.”

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:13:25 +0000

Wendy! lol no no no! You can not not vote! You hear me?

Who have you voted for all these other times? Don’t you dare tell me you haven’t been voting, young lady!

By: Jill Miller Zimon

Jill Miller Zimon — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:12:23 +0000

Hey Shannon – thanks, and back at ya. It’s what I like so much about your writing style – it’s the constituents we really need to hear give the evidentiary truth of what’s going on in that district and what the people want, like, don’t want and don’t like. That’s really, truly all that matters. Sure, the person in the end does have a lot to do with Ohio and the Great Lakes area in general, but still – only the population in the 10th gets to decide. Thanks – I hope your fellow 10th CD residents are reading what you write!

By: Wendy Hoke

Wendy Hoke — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:36:08 +0000

Nice roundup, Jill. Frankly, I’m underwhelmed by them all and I live in the 10th. I’m tempted to not vote in that race in protest of mediocrity.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:06:13 +0000

Feeling lectured to is never, ever a good thing when you’re trying to win over voters. Really, that’s what turned me off on Palmer, too, when it comes right down to it.

And I’m sorry, but I have a very difficult time with Steelyard Commons still — bringing underpaid Wal*Mart-style jobs in is hardly an achievement. You can’t throw a rock without hitting a Wal*Mart, it’s not like they got IKEA to move in or something. Convince that German solar panel company to set up shop and maybe I’ll be impressed…

A lovely roundup, Jill, and thanks for it!