A forum for Des Moines City Council candidates is coming Wednesday, Oct. 7th at Noon at the Des Moines Activity Center, which is located at 2045 South 216th Street.
Here are the details:
WHAT: Forum for Des Moines City Council candidates
WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 7th at Noon
WHERE: Des Moines Activity Center, located at 2045 South 216th St., just east of the Post Office
INFO: Hosted by Des Moines Senior Services Advisory Committee 10th Annual Bayside Brunch
With a newspaper, we get the news long after it has happened but with your blog, the news is NOW! Thank you for that, but you did slip a little on the news about the candidates debate such that I only read the news a day after it happened! Sadly, we missed an opportunity to hear and, perhaps, visit with one or two candidates. Maybe they will do this again and let you know a few days ahead?
A question that I wanted to ask is how the decision was made to put Susan WHite and Dave Kaplan on the same position and Melissa Musser unopposed. These are all good people with whom I have become aquainted but I sense an air of unfairness somehow. Maybe some reader or candidate will enlighten?
Pat, just because you have high speed internet doesn’t mean you have to speed read the articles!
Boy, WHen I screw up I do it big time! I just re-read your article on the candidates and it is in OCTOBER not September. So now I will have to eat CROW…yumm!
Hi, Pat – I’ve seen you ask this question before, and on this same page, and am surprised that no one has answered. It is common knowledge that Dave Kaplan withdrew his seat within the last few minutes of the filing date to run against Susan because he was faced with an unexpected challenger in Melissa Musser. Ed Pina tried to recruit Melissa to run against Susan, but Melissa felt that would be tantamount to running against someone like herself, so chose instead to run against Dave. Pina must have advised Dave that he would lose against this challenger, so Dave filed against Susan. Susan was completely caught off guard by this bit of treachery, and was more concerned with seeing her husband through a difficult medical procedure and her daughter through bed-rest while awaiting the birth of twins. The sad thing is, Dave was completely aware of the hardships Susan faced, but chose to file against her anyway, thereby taking advantage of her terrible family state. Susan dealt with these painful problems up until just after the primary, so had no time for the distractions of the campaign. Meanwhile, Dave spent about $3200 for the primary. The “overwhelming support” he brags of was a result of his spending and hustling for the primary while Susan took care of her family. Big win, Dave.
I’m disappointed to see Dave stoop to this level. Last election, I spent the waning minutes of the filing date to help Dave attain the race he wanted and that would benefit him, even though it meant swapping seats at the last minute to the disadvantage of another deserving candidate. Simply put, what he has done makes me sick.
If what I just read is totally true and I have no reason to doubt Mysty, then, I sit here crushed, confused and debating my own loyalties. As a skeptical voter, I felt that something was amiss but being politically dumb, I was only able to ask questions that ultimately ended in numerous explanations of how this election went awry.
I like both Dave and Susan and have supported both since I knew them as candidates. It is sad that the shadow of “dirty politics” has risen in Des Moines and I only can hope that what is right will trully win.
It is not over until it is over and Susan, as always, will do what is right and I hope the same for Dave, but we won’t know until November, will we?
Now that my day is ruined, I will need to reflect on what some of us can do to right wrongs and regroup. Some readers share e-mail…let’s communicate.