Civic Election

Medicine Hat has 5 mayoral candidates to choose from this civic election. The three front runners for Mayor (no incumbent running) have all responded to DM's offer over at medhatblog.

Submit your platform, and respond to the questions raised by the 17,000 viewers of the blog. That is a lot of traffic. Specific traffic too, as an aside, the blog should probably be monetized, but that is just me. Skeet & DM must know better, but i doubt it. ;)

Norm Boucher was the first candidate to take up DM's offer;

Norm Boucher gives his platform
The back and forth has been good, and vote for him or not as a candidate, he has taken the time to answer questions, even the hard ones.

The second candidate was past City mayor Ted Grimm;

Ted Grimm gives his platform
Mr Grimm seems to have missed the question and answer concept of the forum, but he has some supporters or campaigners who have taken it upon themselves to be heard. Good fun.

The third candidate is past Alderman Bill Cocks;

Bill Cocks gives his platform
This thread has just started, and so hasn't picked up post & comment steam quite yet. It also appears that there might be some technical difficulties. Kind of like when the mike doesn't work during a live forum, only not. Either way, the first comment was about the Esplanade, and it will get rolling from there.

Will the other two candidates submit to the forum, i hope they take advantage of this opportunity to speak.