Well, the Houston Mayoral debates were tonight and here is my personal straw poll...

Sylvester Turner - the best public speaker, but getting really good as spin and comes across as a criminal. It is nice that he invented zero-based budgeting - haha He also appears to be some sort of superhero as he said he was the Crimefighter of the Year. The whole affair with his office and Bill White's office paying off some chick to muddy the ballot is just bad news. C-

Orlando Sanchez - probably worst public speaker, came across as the cleanest candidate although he sounds like another junket king like Mayor Brown. B+

Bill White - pretends to be an outsider, is about as 'inside' as you can get. Shifty eyes... :) Him and Sylvester were buddying up against Sanchez quite a bit, but Turner 'turned' on him at the end. He also tried to hide the fact that he is a political insider and plaintiff's attorney in bed with Enron and the Democratic party. Oh yeah, and a candidate for Mayor does not have to know what the current debt rating is. C-

None of them would give an exact answer to where they would put rail and none of them would talk about the real need of the city - lower taxes and lower waste and corruption.

Oh yeah - and I am not in the city limits so I don't get a vote anyway.... but being an American - I DO get an opinion.
- posted by Chris @ 7:20 PM