Candidates need to dig deeper on their answers
To the editor:
Thank you Cape Breeze for your weekly questions to the candidates in order to bring out what they proposed to stand for and achieve if elected.
However, we need a bit more space so the candidates can expand on their platforms. It seems every candidate wants clean water, controlled growth, infrastructure improvements. But if we have to vote based on a four word synopsis we are in trouble.
We have a Dr. but no education listed in their Bio. I want to know what that doctorate is in and where it was from.
A candidate that says they have skills, but does not state what they are, how they developed or utilized these skills and then applied them to a situation.
I received a flyer from an incumbent candidate that states they are for clean water, sustainability, public safety, transparency. As an incumbent I would like to know those “transparent” specifics.
So why don’t we ask questions like what project required your leadership, how did you organize your team and move it through to completion? What did you learn from the experience?
What city departments have you reviewed and what do you perceive as improvements that can be implemented? What growth opportunities do you see utilizing our current staff? While the oversight of departments is the city manager’s job, have any of the candidates had an opportunity to sit down with the city manager to discuss operations and get a sense of what can be done to improve those infrastructure, clean water, parks initiatives?
We are interviewing candidates, can we not ask interview like questions?
This is what I am looking for when vetting a candidate and I propose that all citizens should be looking for something like this.
J. Caplin
Cape Coral