Incredible!
When I jumped into this race at the very last moment, I was convinced that I offered a different take on a number of issues facing our Town – Carolina-North, real stream protection, economic development, Downtown. I also thought I would bring a different perspective on our Town’s budget, cost-effective operations and necessity to “live within our means”. I knew I offered an experienced hand for leveraging our Town’s technology expenditures to expand opportunity for all while driving the cost out of delivering quality service.
I also knew it would be difficult, especially this year, to counter the “incumbent” advantage and to get my message out.
But I like a good challenge. I worked hard, honed my message (content-laden brevity?) and folk have responded.
So too our venerable local institutions: the IndyWeek, the Daily Tarheel, the Sierra Club.
And now the august Chapel Hill News!
Creative and energetic, Raymond has a tremendous knowledge of technology and how effectively it can be used to improve services. Raymond is at once an opinionated candidate and a prodigious researcher; he’ll tell you exactly what he thinks, and then he’ll produce data to back it up. We admire his strength of conviction, but he will have to temper that with the ability to listen and compromise in order to work well with the other members of the council. If he can do that, he may very well be that bit of grit that makes a pearl.
It does take a small bit of grit and steadfast determination to run. It also takes a bit of grit, sometimes, to stand firm for the people of Chapel Hill, something not all our incumbents know.