Field of candidates up for Moline City Council
On April 5, Moline voters will decide who will sit on the city council for the 2nd Ward, 4th Ward, 6th Ward and At-Large.See link below to article with more info on candidates views and short bios.
Incumbents Dick Potter, 4nd Ward, and Mike Crotty, 6th Ward, are up for re-election.
Mr. Potter is competing against write-in candidate James Beals, and Mr. Crotty is up against Crystal Stillwell.
Incumbents Pat O'Brien, 2nd Ward, and Don Welvaert, At-Large, are vying for the mayor's position, leaving those seats to be filled.
Running for the 2nd Ward seat are Michael Carton and Andria McDermott.
Running for the At-Large position are Kent Breecher and Kathleen Snodgrass.
posted by The Inside Dope @ 3/31/2005
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The Dope found the first Dispatch article on this issue, related to the attack on O'Brien's sources of funding, to be appallingly slanted.
Clearly, it was published almost as a companion piece to the mailing from "Concerned Citizens", Welvaerts group of elves that apparently are doing his dirty work.
This is a standard GOP M.O. stolen from the Bush campaigns where groups of uber-wealthy supporters form some fabricated front group, then try to represent it as a grass-roots organization formed from average concerned citizens.
It's as phony as a 3-dollar bill, and has earned the term "astroturf" groups, as they deceptively try to appear to be a grass-roots group, but are totally artificial.
As usual, the GOP doesn't have grass-roots support, so they solve the problem like they usually do. They BUY it, or at least they buy the appearance of it.
The first Dispatch article was purely an attack on O'Brien generated and promoted by Welvaert's elves, while the second one at least had some degree of balance.
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