From F5:
I have never been so alienated from city politics.
This year's mayoral race seems to offer no really good choices and neither does
the marijuana referendum. I'd just stay home, but that runs against my nature
as well. I just don't know what to do.
The mayoral race this year seems to be
one of the dirtiest and least enlightening in recent memory. Bill Warren
injecting himself into the middle of the race didn't help much either.
First, it is the process. Ten
candidates went into the primaries. That scattered the votes over a wide
spectrum of possibilities, but it also led to the success of the two best
financed candidates. Jeff Longwell and Sam Williams emerged as the contenders.
Jeff Longwell had the most name
recognition going into the primaries. As a city commissioner, he appeared in
the papers frequently and seemed to be a logical choice. The other incumbent,
Lavonta Williams, probably had as good a resume as Longwell but was not so well
financed and had to overcome her race and sex, neither a disqualifier in itself
but together too big a pill for many Wichitans to swallow.
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