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Ben Royce's Blog – October 2011 Archive (3)

10/19 Beacon Candidates Forum, Some Video/ Thoughts

The first hour or so was devoted to the candidates for County Legislature, and the Ward candidates. On the Democrat side, I was most impressed with the performance of Ali Muhammad (at-large), and on the Republican side, I was most impressed with the performance of Thomas Cunningham (4th ward).

When the mayoral candidates came up to bat, about an 1 hour to 1.5 hours into the 3 hour forum, I was electrified to hear Randy Casale mention the Beacon Line THREE times, including at…

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Added by Ben Royce on October 22, 2011 at 12:30am — 27 Comments

Video of Poughkeepsie Journal Mayoral Debate: Steve Gold and Randy Casale

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/livestream/article/20111014/NEWS01/111014005/Beacon-Mayor-Steve-Gold-Randy-Casale

Added by Ben Royce on October 14, 2011 at 4:31pm — 1 Comment

It's Election Season: Here Are Your Candidates

I met Brent Spodek at a party in August, and while we were talking about Beacon and journalism, this idea occurred: use beaconcitizen.com as a resource for the upcoming election. There were actually televised debates in 2007: