Candidates invited to share positions on key issues

Mandeville Daily is contacting each candidate for City Council and Mayor, including incumbents and those who are running unopposed, and asking them to share their positions on key issues. We’re including mayoral candidates too because of the veto power over the City Council. We would love to hear from every candidate.

This is their chance to let the voters know right out of the gate where they stand on key issues. Mandeville Daily will publish the results, unaltered, provided they do not violate one of the rules below or some other editorial policy.

Five questions. Five short answers. Fifty words each. No one is obligated to respond, of course.

We feel it would be in the public interest to know where candidates stand on key issues, side-by-side.

The rules for the candidates choosing to respond are simple:

1) Do not call out individuals or other candidates by name or position. These answers are about you and what you would do.

2) For each question, you have a 50-word maximum (including articles and numbers). We will ignore or truncate anything beyond 50 words. No exceptions.

3) No hyperlinks, web addresses, email addresses or other pointers to external resources. This is an editorial policy. The public is free to search social media or the internet for candidate websites or other resources.

The deadline is Friday, December 22, at 5 p.m. No exceptions. We will email one reminder Thursday evening.

Candidates should email their responses to: editor@mandevilledaily.news. These responses must originate from the email address on file with the St. Tammany Parish Clerk of Court’s Office provided by each candidate when they qualified.

The questions are:

Question 1: What is your position on high-density development in Mandeville?

(50-words are less)

Question 2: After a year of hearings and public meetings, how would you have voted on the Sucette Harbor ordinance and why?

(50-words are less)

Question 3: What are your three favorite things about Mandeville?

(50-words are less)

Question 4: What are the two most important issues you think this next City Council and administration will face?

(50-words are less)

Question 5: What are your thoughts about the upcoming process of updating the City’s Comprehensive Master Plan?

(50-words are less)

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