The 2023 Public Candidate Forum for Skagway Alaska

Here's the first of the contenders for Mayor of the Municipality! Honestly, I love this guy like a brother. He's hit the ground running here in Skagtown and when he's not spending time with family, he's out seeing how everyone is doing. I like that kinda energy, and it is what the valley needs. Emulating that sort of community mindedness produces good fruit. It's not that I don't believe he can do the job, either. He's proven he can. If Sam wins, Skagway will be all the better for it, and shall be handing off the reigns to a quality human being who has Skagway's best interest at heart.

Heye's the second of the three qualified persons running for Mayor of Skagway! I remember the sadness I felt knowing that I was running against Orion. He's a great guy who has put in an insane amount of work in Planning & Zoning, and has sat at that table more times than I care to recount over the last number of years. Orion's haters only have a few complaints about him and none of them are actually about the man himself and his stances on things. The guy is solid, and I mean that in more than a metaphorical sense. He knows where he stands on things, and when someone presents him a fact set that disproves what he thought to be true, he includes those truths in his judgement of a situation. While he's flexible enough to listen to any point, he stands firm in the financing of projects and has worked out a pretty good system of incorporating the category of "Random chaos that costs money" without passing off that cost to the citizenry. He likes to have parameters in writing so that the boundaries can be established, and when they crumble under the weight of chaos, he remedies the problem and finds a way to reach the projected end result with the minimum amount of agony for all involved. He also built the skeleton of The Ark. Him and his crew made sure that our Mini Mansion was finished ahead of schedule and under budget in a time when the cost of everything was almost doubling by the week. Much love, Bruddah. I hope that Skagtown chooses a realistic candidate, and no one has had to shoulder the burden of sitting in public office longer. The complaints and criticisms are abound, but the actual critique will be left in the hands of time. You have planted a good harvest. Skagway now has the option of choosing a local legend as our voice, and I wish you all the best in this venture.

Question and Answer session for the incoming Assembly meember Kate Kolodi. Hope I dids this justice with the footage we had! Next time, I'll see about getting there early and setting up my gopro so the image is a bit more clear when I crop it for each answer. ^_^ Super excited to see this play out. I love election time.

One portion of 5 that will be uploaded and either shared or deleted, depending on the reactions received by candidates. No malicious editing of this footage has taken place and it has been put on a separate channel to differentiate it from any of the uploader's current productions. Strictly business, folks. I want to see each of the Skagwegians, who are brave enough to try and put on the public mantle, with their own ability to circulate and share the stances they take on everything. Our public representatives can be actual representatives of the public if we watch what happens and listen to the reasons why they feel their choices are as developed by consideration as much as public input. May have lost two of the questions... I might have to rework that, but honestly it was nigh impossible to find time to trim it up as much as I did. But, now I got all 1hr 15m trimmed up in to labeled sections, so it'll be easy to knock them out over coffee in the morning. Promise, this'll get shiny eventually...