{"id":5589,"date":"2009-10-12T22:23:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T02:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=5589"},"modified":"2009-10-12T22:23:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T02:23:47","slug":"thoughts-on-todays-danville-sheriffs-race-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/12\/thoughts-on-todays-danville-sheriffs-race-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Thoughts on today&#8217;s Danville Sheriff&#8217;s race debate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*Updated to add comments on Jessica Griffith&#8217;s performance*<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Booth, Mike Mondul and Thelbert Childress got together for a debate today. If you didn&#8217;t see the taped coverage on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgsr47.com\" target=\"_blank\">WGSR<\/a>, you can view the entire debate on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danvillecitynews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DanvilleCityNews.com<\/a>. Let&#8217;s have some thoughts about what happened&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mondul has taken the position as the clear front-runner now. Childress took a shot at Mondul by saying &#8220;Where were the community events (that Mondul has done for his campaign) before?&#8221; Mondul calmly said that he&#8217;d been active in the community well before his campaign. Childress was soundly rejected on this issue and that set the tone for the rest of the debate. Mondul led the discussion, Childress replied and Booth got ran over.<\/li>\n<li>One of Mondul&#8217;s main issues is that the Sheriff&#8217;s Department should be doing the booking process. Going first on this topic, Mondul said that other agencies in the region have implemented this procedure and it&#8217;s working fine. Childress seemed to be opposed to this initiative but said that the problem originated from Mondul&#8217;s change in procedures (which was a very clear non-answer). Booth did weigh in by noting that the office space available was another problem in the booking process. Mondul&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t tell me why it can&#8217;t be done&#8221; attitude impresses me.<\/li>\n<li>Childress spoke about the current cost-effectiveness of the Sheriff&#8217;s Office and that more manpower would be needed for the booking initiative. Mondul quickly smacked that down by clearly stating what the additional funds could be used for and what they could not be used for.<\/li>\n<li>As much as I like Jessica Griffith, her moderation of the debate was poor. A good debate moderator states the agreed rules at the beginning and directs traffic according to these rules. Booth was flattened by the back-and-forth between Childress and Mondul, and Griffith didn&#8217;t step in to move the debate along. Griffith&#8217;s final question asking about operations and visibility about the police department was totally irrelevant about the Sheriff&#8217;s Department (and she was called on that by Mondul). There was no real format to the debate and the quality suffered.<\/li>\n<li>Who is in the &#8220;Danville Ministerial Alliance&#8221; (the group that sponsored the debate)? The only thing that I&#8217;ve heard about this group is when they took out a newspaper ad supporting the strikers during the last Goodyear labor dispute. I&#8217;ve got a big problem with any religious organization that tries to take any kind of a political stand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that happened. Who &#8220;won&#8221; this debate? On a grading scale, Mondul gets an &#8220;A&#8221; for his confidence and clarity of replies, Childress gets a &#8220;C&#8221; for answering questions, and Booth gets an &#8220;Incomplete&#8221; because I forgot he was there (and I&#8217;m beginning to think that he forgot he was there too).<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE #1<\/strong>: I spoke with Jessica Griffith tonight and found out that this was her first time hosting a debate like this. She said that she was also getting unsolicited advice from friends during the taping and that made it distracting at times. Knowing that, I&#8217;m taking back my harshest statements because she had two very dominant personalities on the debate panel going back and forth. I have a feeling that she&#8217;s learned a lot from this experience and will do much better on her next hosting. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Updated to add comments on Jessica Griffith&#8217;s performance*<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Booth, Mike Mondul and Thelbert Childress got together for a debate today. If you didn&#8217;t see the taped coverage on WGSR, you can view the entire debate on DanvilleCityNews.com. 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News: Mike Mondul seems to have the front-runner status, but Thelbert Childress is starting to get his campaign rolling along. Wayne Booth has increased\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Danville&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5599,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/14\/danville-city-sheriffs-race-update-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":5589,"position":1},"title":"Danville City Sheriff\u2019s Race \u2013 Update #3","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"October 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Update: Danville City Sheriff\u2019s Race \u2013 Update #2 Now it's getting interesting... News: The candidates had a debate. Whoo boy. You already know my take on the debate, so I won't repeat it here. Mondul picks up the FOP endorsement, quite unsurprisingly. Mondul's obligatory \"photo with lots of people\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Danville&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4725,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/19\/danville-city-sheriffs-race-update-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":5589,"position":2},"title":"Danville City Sheriff&#8217;s Race &#8211; Update #1","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"July 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Three candidates in a race where the incumbent is stepping down... what's going to happen? Danville Police Lt. Mike Mondul, Danville Sheriff Dept. Lt. Thelbert Childress, and Sheriff's Office employee Wayne Booth are in the race. Let's do the first rundown of the candidates. 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WGSR will be airing the videotape of the debate after\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;NewsCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"NewsCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/newscentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7831,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/01\/danville-city-sheriffs-race-update-1-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5589,"position":5},"title":"UPDATED: Danville City Sheriff&#8217;s Race &#8211; Update #1","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"September 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE #1: I've changed some comments below to reflect reading a R&B article about Silas Crews. Let's keep the SouthsideCentral election theme going and take a look at the race for Sheriff in the City of Danville... 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