On the November 6 election ballot in Youngstown
Charter amendment: permitting the mayor to run for an unlimited number of four year terms.
Is this a good idea? Why or why not?
it is a bad idea. the ch rev com were clueless on this issue. the ytown resients wanted to put term limits on the mayor and the council for a reason, fresh blood in the city hall. we do not need another pat ungaro cafaro in office for another eighteen yrs.
Massillon, Oh. doesn't have term limits for its mayor. Frank Ciccinelli was first elected mayor in 1987, and was finally voted out last year. As a kid, (in the 80's) I remember riding through downtown with Mom, and noticing how rundown it was. But, the Ciccinelli administration was able to greatly improve the city over its many terms. I'm not sure he/they would have been successful, if they were limited to 2 terms.
its not the mayor that turns the city around. its his ad, council and the residents of the city. i say let the term lmts stay and let us have fresh blood every four to eight yrs.
I'm against an unlimited number of terms for mayor. From past experience, this city has not had much of a choice when it comes to picking a mayor. If anything, we need to find a way to encourage many more people to run for office at all levels.
i agree with westsider, if someone is doing a great job keep them in, theres nothing worse then having to vote between two terrible candidates because the incumbent is term limited.
Question
Suppose we had a mayor that was doing a great job ... the city was getting out of debt ... our streets and bridges were cared for ... businesses were coming in bringing jobs with them ... taxes were being reduced ... crime was down ... city council was holding it's meetings at 7:00 pm would you say term limit that mayor out of office in order to bring in a person who didn't know where west was even if you pointed to it?
Change for the sake of change can come back to bite you in the rear.
Question
Name the Republican who ran against Jay Williams in the 2009 general election?
Ahhh so it comes right down to politics and not qualifications. Forget everything else ... a persons party affiliation comes first last and always.
If your beef is the fact that few if any Republicans run for city offices, you have only the Republican leadership to blame, and term limits will not do a single thing to change the playing field.
Personally, in as much as the GOP has written off Youngstown, I've written the GOP off, and until there is a mighty change within the party, there is no way that I will vote for any Republican on the county level.
What has the county GOP done for our city that would warrant our support? Nothing. Even the city residents that are on the central committee have written the city off.
Republican Central Committee members from Youngstown
YGN 2D Tracey Winbush Youngstown YGN 3C Mr. Raymond Butler Youngstown YGN 3G Ms. Jill A. Downie Youngstown YGN 3H Mr. Richard Atkinson Youngstown YNG 4A Mr. Kevin Wegendt Youngstown YNG 4G Mr. Dominic Lucarelli Youngstown YNG 4M Mr. Adam Costello Youngstown YGN 5D Mr. Donald F. Komara Youngstown YGN 5M Mr. Tyrone Peakes Youngstown YGN 5N Don Priester Youngstown YGN 6J Charles E. Rhodes, Jr. Youngstown YNG 5H Mr. James Young Youngstown YNG 5K Mr. Michael Gunger Youngstown YNG 6A Mr. Jim Priester Youngstown YNG 7B Mr. Myke Clarett Youngstown YNG 7C Jeremy Haddle Youngstown YNG 7M Mr. Robert Vukovich Youngstown
Quote from: jay on October 26, 2012, 10:06:31 AM
Question
Name the Republican who ran against Jay Williams in the 2009 general election?
jay williams was the closet case republican that ran in the mayoral race of 2005. sonny smith brought him to the boe to introduce him to the republican boardmembers as theri man in the race for ytown mayor. he told the republican boardmembers to support him financially because majority of them lived in the subs. one rep board member said he was the most argonant person he ever met. sonny smith donated twenty thousand dollars to his campaign the day before the general election. so much for mayor j being the first independent to run for this office without his nose growing when he spoke that he was not beholden to any group.