Leander Candidate Forum Canceled

From Hill Country News, May 21, 2009...

The Leander City Council Candidate Forum is canceled for May 26 at Pat Bryson Hall. There will be no makeup date. Four candidates - Iris Davis (mayor candidate), Mark Kronkosky (place 1 candidate), Cathy Broun (place 4 candidate) and Josh Payne (place 6 candidate) - have said they will not attend. The Leander runoff election will be June 13. Early voting will be June 1-9. Read next week's Hill Country News for more details on why it was canceled.

From a previous Hill Country News article:

"They'll have a candidate forum on May 26 at 7 p.m. at Pat Bryson Hall, but with a new twist. Unlike the traditional forums in the past, this one will have more open debate between the candidates. And the first eight questions of the night will be written by each other's opponents.

Each group will formulate their own questions to ask the other group. For example: a question formulated from the Iris Davis group will be asked to John Cowman, who will have three minutes to answer. Then, Davis will have one minute to rebut his answer. Each candidate will have a question to answer and an answer to rebut. There will be questions from the audience as well as opening and closing comments. As another new addition to the forum, the moderator will have the opportunity to redirect a question or ask an opponent to explain further on a topic."

[RCA] Hmmmmm... all of the challengers opt out of a debate with the incumbents!  Is it perhaps because they felt they would not be able to make a good showing in such a forum?  Is their slience golden, or just an indication of nothing to say? 

I believe this is just indicative of the lack of insight into the city's issues which is generally exhibited by the city council challengers.  One challenger was recently heard to ask when the city council has its meetings.  When told, he replied, "I guess I better go attend one of those meetings so I'll know what's going on."