{"id":8535,"date":"2014-04-24T14:46:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T18:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=8535"},"modified":"2014-04-24T14:46:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T18:46:01","slug":"danville-city-council-election-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/24\/danville-city-council-election-update-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Danville City Council Election &#8211; Update #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve days to go before the election, so lets see how the election is shaping up.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start it off with a Big Board Of Random Thoughts&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This year&#8217;s City Council election has been about as routine as all of the rest of them always turn out to be.<\/li>\n<li>With Danville City Council working so well together, it&#8217;s been no surprise that the incumbents have been extremely strong.<\/li>\n<li>If Adam Tomer had ran for re-election, I firmly believe that all four incumbents would have been easily reelected.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not surprised that Lee Vogler has been the only sitting councilmember who has been active in this election process.<\/li>\n<li>Justin Ferrell would have made this race a lot more interesting because he would have gotten the youth voting bloc involved. I am not picking up much excitement from the youth bloc in this cycle, and that&#8217;s a shame only two years after that bloc propelled Lee Vogler into his win.<\/li>\n<li>Madison Whittle&#8217;s only chance to have won would have been to &#8220;buy&#8221; the election with loads of advertising. Based on Danville&#8217;s voting tendencies, that strategy could have worked. He saved a lot of money by dropping out.<\/li>\n<li>Although they&#8217;ll never admit it, I believe that the three incumbents (Gary Miller, Alonzo Jones and John Gilstrap) think that they are safe.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m starting to hear slight undercurrents of &#8220;Is it time for a new mayor?&#8221; but I&#8217;ve not gotten anything concrete to investigate yet.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s too many candidate forums this time. Three should be enough.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ok, enough Random Thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go to each candidate and see how they&#8217;ve done in these last few weeks since our last update. We&#8217;ll start with the incumbents.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gary Miller: He&#8217;s as strong as I thought he would be. He&#8217;s running a good re-election campaign that&#8217;s focusing on his strengths. I laughingly remark that he&#8217;s getting a bit &#8220;crotchety old man&#8221; as the campaign nears its end but he&#8217;s well on his way to another 4-year term. He&#8217;s <strong>EVEN<\/strong> since our last update.<\/li>\n<li>Alonzo Jones: If Danville ever gets a late-night talk show, I want Alonzo to be the host. He can&#8217;t help but take over the room with his personality and his leadership in his first four years is leading him to another term. He&#8217;s getting stronger as the days count down, and I&#8217;m going to rate him <strong>SLIGHTLY UP<\/strong> since our last update since his presence continues to grow.<\/li>\n<li>John Gilstrap: I&#8217;m astonished at how he has used his vast knowledge of how the city works to become an excellent councilman, and his performance at the local forums continue to show he&#8217;s well deserving of re-election. He&#8217;s been bold enough to correct others&#8217; mistakes at these forums and is acting like the boss. I&#8217;ll rate him <strong>UP<\/strong> since our last update.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The incumbents are strong. With three strong incumbents on the way to re-election, there&#8217;s really one available seat for four challengers. Let&#8217;s see how they&#8217;re doing&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dawn Witter: Witter continues to stick to her issues and has already won the subset of voters that she was going to win anyway. The problem for her is that she had already won those votes when she announced her candidacy. Witter was amazingly forceful and strong at the first forum but I haven&#8217;t seen that fire in her lately. She missed a big chance to connect at the Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s forum but she&#8217;s not out. For Witter to win, she&#8217;s got to connect with the old white people voting bloc and the business people voting bloc. She&#8217;s a fighter and there&#8217;s time left on the clock. Since our last update, I&#8217;ve got to rate Witter as <strong>SLIGHTLY DOWN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>James Buckner: Buckner got blindsided with a family death in the past few weeks but he jumped right back up and kept going in the campaign. His key to winning will be getting out the vote. Since our last update, James Buckner has been <strong>EVEN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Joyce Glaise: I was horrified at Joyce Glaise&#8217;s performance at the first few forums and thought she was a cartoon version of the &#8220;out-of-touch politician&#8221;. Holy wow, she has pulled herself out of that tailspin and I&#8217;m highly impressed at her turnaround. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s too late because she&#8217;ll have to overcome Witter &amp; Buckner&#8217;s momentum to win the seat. That being said, I&#8217;m quite pleased to rate Glaise as <strong>STRONGLY UP<\/strong> since our last update.<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Motley: I started this election cycle really hoping that Motley would have a decent chance in this big field of candidates. He had the experience of two unsuccessful campaigns and could have used that to see what worked. He&#8217;s gone in the other direction by missing candidate forums and blaming others for his previous losses. There&#8217;s more to Danville than utility rate increases. Thomas motley is way better than the campaign he&#8217;s running. Since our last update, he&#8217;s <strong>STRONGLY DOWN<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there you have it&#8230;\u00a0 More coming up on SouthsideCentral.<\/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>Twelve days to go before the election, so lets see how the election is shaping up.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danville","category-opinioncentral","category-politicscentral","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-2dF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8399,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/23\/danville-city-council-race-incumbent-overview\/","url_meta":{"origin":8535,"position":0},"title":"Danville City Council Race &#8211; Incumbent Overview","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"March 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"It's that time again. 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