District 1 Mudslinging Heats Up!

Here is a the article from the Tribune about last weeks District 1 debate. Better late than never, I guess. Its interesting to see the views of the two different candidates. Richins speaks more about the community feel of District 1 and focuses on the neighbors while Tolman focuses more on the politics and being critical of the current council. Both are interesting strategies that will attract people. While the candidates seem to be fairly cordial to eachother, at least nothing was noted in the article, the more interesting bits of information have shown up in the comments section:

Tolman is being called a "slum lord" and "part of the political machine" because of his property management business and close connections to Charlie "Shame on Mesa" Powell.

Richins is being called a "political leech" and a "good old boy" because he works for the West Mesa Community Development Corporation and has worked with the City on various projects.

Talk about guilt by association! Lets not talk about the issues, lets talk about where the candidates work and who their friends are. That is certainly a good bit of political dialogue.