Mayoral Candidate Events (May 2007)

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Mary Beth Conlon (1hr, 29min)........Mike Schneider (1hr, 2min)..

This weekend (May 19-20, 2007) both Councilperson Marybeth Conlon (Ward 2) and Councilperson Mike Schneider (Ward 4) held public forums to introduce themselves and their ideas to the residents of Overland. Both candidates graciously allowed the Overland Examiner to video these events so we could present them to our readers.

We hope to have the same opportunity should Councilperson Peggy Keller (Ward 3) choose to hold a similar event. I talked to her about this last week shortly after she filed to run for Mayor, but at the time she was not sure when or if she might be holding any similar events.

The videos are a bit small here on the site. You can go to Google to view them in a larger format but they get very grainy there. This is because I uploaded them in a size specific to this site's needs. The key for both of these events is not so much the video, but the audio and what the candidates had to say. Both Candidates presented interesting ideas that are well worth your time to listen to them.

We had some issues taping these events. In the case of Councilperson Conlon's forum we had a lighting issue in the beginning (and again later on in the video) related to the window directly behind her. I was able to resolve this to a degree with some adjustments on the camera but they took a bit of time. Also, Councilperson Conlon had a nice PowerPoint presentation, but I couldn't get a clean focus on it, nor could I keep it and her in the shot without having to zoom out too far to be viewable on this site.

At Councilperson Schneider's event, the acoustics of the room were not quite as good (there's a bit of an echo). Also, there was a break between his presentation and when the the floor was opened to audience questions. I cut that break out, leaving a moment when Councilperson Schneider briefly returned to the podium, and attached the audience questions section at the end. I did this simply to keep the video interesting for our readers.

Both Candidates did a bit of wandering around as they talked. At these meetings I was taking notes, making some failed attempts at getting still pictures, and answering resident's questions for me here and there. As you'll see in the videos, sometimes I failed to keep up with both candidates as they walked off camera. To make it interesting, count how many times they walk out of view and feel free to email me to give me grief, as I deserve it.

The goal of this article and similar ones in the future is to give more residents the opportunity to hear what the candidates have to say so they can make their own informed decision on August 7th, 2007. Help us achieve that goal by watching these videos and letting your friends and neighbors know how to find them as well as our website. There is nothing more powerful in this country than a community full of informed voters willing to go to the polls every time.

Comments are not enabled on this article. I wanted to keep it simple. However, I would like to offer the candidates an opportunity to follow up with us so please feel free to email any questions you have about anything either candidate said above. I'll put together the best of them to send to each candidate in the hopes that they will answer these questions and allow us to publish those answers here in a later article.