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Mayor Sandi Bloem, who won re-election to a historic third, four-year term last night, discussed the 2009 election’s close results w/Huckleberrie Online, beginning with the question: “How do you interpret the results of the election?”)
Sandi Bloem: A lot more people voted this year. For that I’m pleased everyone should take the right to vote. We thought it could be a very close race. There were 10 debates out there, where there are usually 3. There was a lot of action on all candidates’ part as far as campaigning. It’s too early for us to analyze everything. The thing that would be most important to me out of this whole process. We need to see if there isn’t a way or model we can have in this community for respectful and civil conversation. We are always going to have differences of opinion. That is always healthy. We need to ask how can we communicate those differences differently than what happened in this election.
Question: What advice would you give Mayor Bloem as she prepares to begin her third term?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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wheels on November 05 at 6:32 a.m.
I would advise her to embrace total transparancy.IMO not having more than one appraisal on the Ed Corridor property created distrust.The public has the right to be assured of the true value.It’s not that a large group is against it, rather in this economy back door politics creates an offensive odor.This action alone would have greatly enhanced the trust in our local officials.