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Show must go on, without drama

Published 12:03am Thursday, May 17, 2012

The cast of characters is all set, and all that’s left now is for the curtain to go up on June 5.

Natchez’s municipal election is a dramatic production that is, quite literally, played out in real life.

The scene is Natchez.

The timeframe is present day.

And, we hope, that’s where the drama and acting end.

Too often, elections become filled with mud-slinging and accusations, but lack true character development.

Candidates should focus their attention on character development — tell voters why you’re the best candidate, not why your opponent isn’t.

Lay out the city’s plot as you’d like to see it over the next four years and, more importantly, how you’ll see to that plot having a happy ending.

Campaigns are important, but so is having a plan and a vision for what you seek after the election show is over.

We know some of the candidates have both, and we fear some others do not.

Natchez is in desperate need of leaders who can work well with each other and, find common ground across all of the silly things that tend to divide us — race, economics, politics and even school allegiances.

Natchez needs to work together to get progress moving in the right direction.

In the last decade, our community has lost thousands of jobs and the people who filled those jobs.

It’s critical that our team be stacked with talented players who can make the show not only go on, but be a blockbuster worthy of our great community.

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  • Anonymous

    NATCHEZ DEMOCRAT, Please, please, please give us more definitive insight on the two candidates in which we are not very familiar. Brown has been here, done his thing, so we know who he is. We very much need and depend on your unbiased reporting to help us reach a decision we will have to live with for the next four or more years. If you do not have the time or space for personal interviews with the two, please give us direction where we may find it. Please help us in making a wise decision.

  • Anonymous

    Destiny, I respect your concern for more knowledge, an unbiased opinion.  The ND has already commented on all the candidates in both mayoral and aldermen positions and made their endorsements,  We’re all wondering who doesn’t have a vision? as the ND implies.  I would recommend that you call each candidate personally and ask them who they are, what their goals and visions are for this city rather than run it through the biased and partisan sieve of The Natchez Democrat’s editorial staff. 

  • Anonymous

    Thanks much, riverwarrior, I will follow your advice because we have too much to lose if we don’t make the right decision this go round. There are many questions I would like answered but just a few would help. I am concerned about the community as a whole and not just a favored few as some people are. Brown is part of the problem we have. He is with the two components (garden clubs) that are holding the community back instead of moving forward. We need these garden clubs to get on with the business of doing what they do best, running their clubs for the pilgrimages and the city leaders to get on with the business of running the city. Enough is enough.    

  • Anonymous

    Cooper, the industry announcements and casino announcement over the last two years were “blockbuster.”  Jeez, your doom and gloom scenario is ridiculously over the top.  Things have been absolutely amazing lately and nobody is happy.  This town gives me the freakin blues.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not doom and gloom!!  I am encouraged by the advances that have been made. The only thing that has given me the freakin’ blues is this recent resurgence of racial division and the inability of a part of the electorate to distinguish where a candidate RESIDES.

  • Anonymous

    Consolidate City/ County government NOW!!!!!  Get rid of all the crooked alderman/alderwoman, and county supervisors…. Clean house, and lets do this right!

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