[Electronic-lan] Candidate Forums this weekend...do you have anyquestions for the candidates?
Michael Almon
paradigm at ixks.com
Fri Jul 13 12:05:37 CDT 2018
I would say that the sprawl question does indeed involve the County
Commission. First, it's their agricultural or natural lands that are
being degraded, and secondly, the County Commission must vote to allow
their land to be annexed into the City.
Michael
On 07/13/2018 09:00 AM, Dustin Stumblingbear via Electronic-lan wrote:
> The sprawl question seems more in line with a city commission race
> versus a county commission or state house race. Douglas County has
> multiple municipalities that determine their own standards for
> expansion. The county limits are not going to expand any time soon.
>
> If we are going to send questions to a group called the “Voter
> Education Coalition” might it be a wise move to keep questions focused
> on what the candidates will face as elected officials in a particular
> office. Throwing in unrelated questions to the policy that would be
> formed at the various levels of government serves only to confuse and
> misinform citizens rather than intelligently inform them. Which I see
> as a direct contradiction to the mission statement of the VEC.
>
> Are we knowledgeable citizens who want our fellow citizens to be
> intelligently informed?
>
> Perhaps a rewording of the question would be more ideal, Do you see
> urban sprawl as beneficial or detrimental to expanding the tax base of
> the local area and why?
>
> How do you see continued urban sprawl impacting the needs of the
> county government in the next 4 or 8 years?
>
> Other rewrites are possible but let us make sure the questions are
> focused on the actual seat being discussed as opposed to distractions
> and red herrings. Our community has endured enough of that ignorance
> these last few years. We can and should seek to do better.
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 8:29 PM Carol Bowen via Electronic-lan
> <electronic-lan at lists.ku.edu <mailto:electronic-lan at lists.ku.edu>> wrote:
>
> Like this question.
>
>
> ~ Carol
>
> On Jul 11, 2018, at 2:51 PM, Richard Heckler via Electronic-lan
> <electronic-lan at lists.ku.edu <mailto:electronic-lan at lists.ku.edu>>
> wrote:
>
>> How many ways would discouraging sprawl be fiscal responsible policy?
>>
>> http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/report00/intro.asp
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, July 10, 2018, 5:55:24 PM CDT, Kirk McClure via
>> Electronic-lan <electronic-lan at lists.ku.edu
>> <mailto:electronic-lan at lists.ku.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Melin and all –
>>
>> For the forum on *Douglas County Commission _Democratic
>> Primary_*, District 1
>>
>> Background:
>>
>> The update to Horizon 2020 calls for discouraging sprawl by
>> redirecting growth of real estate development away from the
>> perimeter of Lawrence and toward more intensive use of existing
>> vacant land which will help to revitalize older neighborhoods.
>> Such a plan will only work if the County Commission is willing to
>> say “No” to development proposals in the urban growth perimeter
>> of Lawrence, redirecting that development back into the city.
>>
>> The question:
>>
>> As a County Commissioner, will you be willing to support this
>> plan and make it work?
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Kirk
>>
>> Kirk and Jeannie McClure
>> 707 Tennessee Street
>> Lawrence, Kansas 66044-2369
>> 785.842.8968
>> mcclurefamily at sbcglobal.net <mailto:mcclurefamily at sbcglobal.net>
>>
>> *From: *Melinda via Electronic-lan
>> <mailto:electronic-lan at lists.ku.edu>
>> *Sent: *Tuesday, July 10, 2018 2:58 PM
>> *To: *LAN Email List <mailto:electronic-lan at lists.ku.edu>
>> *Subject: *[Electronic-lan] Candidate Forums this weekend...do
>> you have anyquestions for the candidates?
>>
>> Please share with your neighborhoods. Thank you.
>>
>> The Voter Education Coalition is hosting three candidate forums
>> for the upcoming primary election, which is August 7th.
>> Information has been shared to the LAN Facebook page, and details
>> also follow below. If you have any questions you'd like to submit
>> to be considered for a forum, please email them to:
>> vecdgks at gmail.com <mailto:vecdgks at gmail.com> as soon as possible.
>> Candidates participating in the forums are only for elections in
>> which a primary is required. All forums will be held at City Hall
>> in the commission chambers. Additional candidate information can
>> be found on the VEC Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/vecdgks/
>>
>> Details:
>>
>> VEC Candidate Forum: *State House _Republican_* Primary Candidates
>> Saturday, July 14 at 3 PM - 4:30 PM
>> House Republican candidates: (HD = House District)
>> Jim Karleskint (HD42)
>> Lance Neelly (HD42)
>> Cynthia Smith (HD45)
>> Ronald Thacker (HD45)
>>
>> Maps of the districts can be found here:
>>
>> http://kslegislature.org/li/m/pdf/district_maps/district_map_h_042.pdf
>>
>> http://kslegislature.org/li/m/pdf/district_maps/district_map_h_045.pdf
>>
>> VEC Candidate Forum: *State House _Democratic_* Primary Candidates
>> Saturday, July 14 at 5 PM - 6:30 PM (HD=House District)
>> House Democratic candidates:
>> Mike Amyx (HD45)
>> Steven X. Davis (HD45)
>> Aidan Loveland Koster (HD45)
>> Boog Highberger (HD46)
>> Ben Ferlo (HD 46) /Unable to attend forum
>> (Please be advised that this race does not have any Republican
>> candidates, so the primary election will decide the winner of
>> this race, unless an Independent Nomination Petition is received
>> by noon on August 6th.)/
>>
>> Maps of the districts can be found here:
>>
>> http://kslegislature.org/li/m/pdf/district_maps/district_map_h_045.pdf
>> <http://kslegislature.org/li/m/pdf/district_maps/district_map_h_042.pdf>
>>
>> http://kslegislature.org/li/m/pdf/district_maps/district_map_h_046.pdf
>> <http://kslegislature.org/li/m/pdf/district_maps/district_map_h_045.pdf>
>>
>> VEC Candidate Forum: *Douglas County Commission _Democratic
>> Primary_*, District 1
>> Sunday, July 15 at 3 PM - 4:30 PM
>> Douglas County Commission District 1 Democratic candidates:
>> Patrick Kelly
>> John Magnuson
>> Leslie Soden/
>> (Please be advised that this race does not have any Republican
>> candidates, so the primary election will decide the winner of
>> this race, unless an Independent Nomination Petition is received
>> by noon on August 6th.)/
>>
>> A map of the district can be found here:
>>
>> https://www.douglascountyks.org/sites/default/files/media/depts/voting-and-elections/pdf/county-commission-district-map-lawrence.pdf
>> <http://kslegislature.org/li/m/pdf/district_maps/district_map_h_045.pdf>
>>
>>
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