Dems Hold First Council Candidate Forum

Published by Waldo Jaquith on May 12, 2007 in Politics. 2 Comments

The five Democrats vying for the three available seats on City Council held their first forum a couple of nights ago, and Charlottesville Tomorrow provides audio and video from the debates. The format was pretty interesting: speed-dating style small group discussions followed by the usual answering questions from the audience.

Here’s excerpts of the candidates’ comments on the topic of growth in the small group discussions (45 minutes):

And here’s the audio of the panel discussion: (50 minutes):

Three more debates are planned. Here’s hoping that the format and atmosphere of each of these remains as interesting and collegial as this first one — it’s a lot better than the format that’s been used by local Democrats for some years now.

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