20 Questions

Well your questions have been sent. Following is the letter to your Council and potential council persons.

Dear.....

I and the Citizens of Sierra Madre would like to ask you few questions; you might call it an on-line interview of sorts. The same questions have been sent to all candidates running with a few additional questions for the non-incumbents.

Your responses will be published in their entirety on both the CF Blog, a local on-line news source covering the foothill cities, and the local Sierra Madre Blog, A View from the Canyon.

These questions were sent in by the Citizens of Sierra Madre, your constituents. They feel strongly that they need to know a bit more about you.

I hope that you will respond to the questions, and of course add any comments that you feel are newsworthy. I would like to receive your responses back by Monday February 25th. I would appreciate that you let me know if you do not intend to respond to the questions, so I do not hold up publication pending your responses.

Questions are outlined below: Please e-mail me if you have any questions on the process.


We would like to know more about your qualifications of for city council.

1. Have you served on any committees?

2. What type of volunteer work can you be credited with in the city?

3. Have you served on any of the commissions?

4. What do you do for a living, and how does that experience relate to running a City?

5. Do you have the ability to work for the citizens of Sierra Madre without a partisan agenda?

6. What special talents or abilities does you bring to the table?

7. What is the definition of a Family, and how do you intend to use it.?

8. I'd like to know how all the candidates are going to approach the budget if the UUT fails.

9. Are you willing to work to find ways to continue funding of services such as parks and recreation, senior services, and library services. Do you fully support these services?

10. What is your understanding of funding mechanisms for city services? Have you thought of ways to ensure that wages are adequate for all city employees?

11. Would you consider yourself to be a city councilperson for everyone, bearing in mind that we all have vested interests in the town, even if we are politically opposed on some issues.

12. I would like to ask the Council candidates is: will they, or why wouldn't they seek new bids and proposals from Arcadia PD, Pasadena PD and the County as a comparison against present services and the quality of services?

13. How do you intend to approach the now stagnant projects in the downtown, when will the boarded up buildings become revenue generating tax paying businesses?

Interview with a Vampire

I will be e-mailing an interview with all the same questions to the candidates early next week. I will post the questions and the answers here and over a the FC Blog once they are recieved.

This is your last chance to get those questions answered. Just leave them in the comments section. So far we have just a few. There is alot of support for the yes on V candidates over at the comments on the foothill blog, yet they don't seem to have any questions for their own candidates. Must be neighbors or sisters or something.

In any case I want to know what will happen with the cops if the UUT does not pass, I want to know how the candidates intend to deal with the blight in the downtown, the boarded up nursing home and the soon to be empty gas station, what about new revenue sources? I really don't care who voted for or against V, I just want to hear some intellegent practical answers.

Meet the Candidates

In case you were wondering who exactly is running for election here in our quaint little town...

For the office of Council Member: John Buchanan, Enid Joffe, MaryAnn MacGillivray, Kevin Paschall, Bill Tice.

For the office of City Clerk: Nancy Shollenberger, Karma Bell

For the office of Treasurer: George Enyedi, Salvatore Tesoro, III.

I plan on contacting the candidates, for a short e-mail interview. If you have a questions you would like answered, e-mail me, or post it in the comments section, and it will be considered.

Super Tuesday

Please don't forget to get out and Rock the Vote. Make a difference. If you don't know where your polling place is you can find it here.

If you did not reregister in the area but want to vote, and are registered in the county, you can go to any polling place and ask for a provisional ballot.

Who would need a provisional ballot? You claim to be properly registered and eligible to vote in the election district, but your name does not appear on the district register (poll book) and elections officials cannot determine your registration. These ballots are verified prior to counting.