District 3 Forum

Sounds like another fun time at these rotating district debates. This time the Republic is reporting from District 3 where former Vice Mayor Dennis Kavanaugh and newcomer Mark Yarbrough are squaring off. I don't know if Yarbrough has any signs up yet, but I saw some of Kavanaugh's up in the Fiesta Mall area, and I wasn't sure if he was running for council or selling some off brand of soda.

Anyway, it sounds like once again the crowd was the star of the show. It seems to be that people are fed up and they want to make their voice heard. They all seem to be fed up about different things, but one thing seems to run through all of these comments that they don't like the way things are. I thought it was interesting that Kavanaugh came out in favor of the Primary, the Secondary, AND the retroactive Secondary. Thats a whole lotta taxes that he is in favor for in a town that has shown that they want to vote down taxes. To be fair, I think I read back during the Property tax election that two precincts in District 3 actually voted in favor of the tax, so who knows, maybe he is appealing to them.

The reports I am getting is that Yarbrough has a lot of enthusiasm, but not a lot of answers or polished ideas. Kavanaugh clearly comes off as the veteran in this race, but we'll see if he still has enough cache to drive him over the finish line.