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Mayoral Non-Endorsement & A Self-Serving ($50K) Kumbaya Study

Mayoral Non-Endorsement & A Self-Serving ($50K) Kumbaya Study

November 5, 2024

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Jon Baliles
Nov 05, 2024
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Today is Election Day and a free issue for all subscribers! If you haven’t voted, be sure to get out and do so!

Speaking of voting, today’s issue is about Mayor Stoney’s press conference last week in which he released a city-funded study to prove everything is fine at City Hall and claimed none of the candidates running to succeed him are audacious enough.

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As people go to the polls today to vote for a new mayor, it is worth looking back at last week’s press conference held by Mayor Stoney at which he simultaneously said none of the candidates on the ballot have the vision to earn his endorsement while he also talked up a month-old report conducted by a hired consultant that found (after being paid $49,500) City Hall was running like a Swiss watch and that no one should be fired or replaced when the new mayor takes office in January.

The message that Stoney, who is term-limited from running aga…

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