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Thursday, November 03, 2011

Today's Survey Question 11-3-11

Do you support Mayor Ireton's proposal to add two new Council Members?

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

NO!

Anonymous said...

Yes, makes sense, with the population growth and the lack of representative diversity of the current Council.

Anonymous said...

nope, 5 is good. 7 would be too much. we arent that big of a town anyway

Anonymous said...

YES!

Anonymous said...

no

Anonymous said...

He only wants to do it because of O'sally did it in b-more area, and only so they can get more dems in office...

Anonymous said...

No, No.

Anonymous said...

Absolutely not.

Anonymous said...

Even though I feel the mayor has good intentions for the city, this move makes him look small. It appears that this move is in retaliation to council recently amending the charter.

Anonymous said...

It appears as though he's trying to get a majority that will favor his agendas. I doubt if the population of Salisbury has changed much since he decided to run for mayor. Or has it? Why didn't he campaign on this issue?

Anonymous said...

No.Shields must have some friends that need jobs and thats a perfect way to stack the deck in his favor.

Anonymous said...

No way----Have enough now!

Anonymous said...

Absolutely, positively not. The current Council (except for Shields and Mitchell) is working for the citizens of this town, looking out for their best interests and Mr. Mayor Boy doesn't like it one little bit.

Anonymous said...

No , we need less government , I would like to see 2 less members.
I won't mention the names but it is not debbie or terry.
We could make faster and better decisions with less government. Cost saving also!
Maybe Ireton has opened the pandoras box.

Anonymous said...

Hell no.

Anonymous said...

Nope dont need more democrats pissing in the wind

Anonymous said...

No way!

Anonymous said...

Another ploy by Jim-Beau to get the minority votes he absolutely needs to be reelected.

Anonymous said...

we sure dont need more politicians making rules for us to live by. we have too much govt now. we could sure use a new mayor though. thanks sjd

Anonymous said...

Hal NO!
The first thing is How to pay them...
that's just the first thing
for a voter turnout of less than a fourth of the population? The only way to get a higher turnout is to go door to door with the ballots. Anyone who wants to can vote, yet they don't. This won't increase the #'s.

Anonymous said...

population has been 30K for a very LOOOng time, now. Not big enough to warrant this expansion...and most are itinerants from the college. We actually have fewer permanent residents.