A Boring Forum, With A Few Nuggets

Wednesday night's candidate forum for Salisbury mayoral and council candidates was quite possibly the most boring event I have ever attended.  It wasn't because of the candidates, the questions were actually better than the typical tripe thrown at events like the PACE forum, the sponsors did a good job.  No, the problem was the format.  You simply can't ask good questions and then try to limit responses to one or two minutes and not give candidates a chance for rebuttal.

Salisbury faces problems.  Citizens should ask a simple question:

Are you better off now than you were six years ago?

If you are a member of that little clique known as the "Friends of Barrie", then the answer is yes.  If you aren't the answer is probably no.  Consequently, citizens should be able to hear the important issues facing the city hashed out rather than being just offered sound bites.

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