Friday Night Fight - Oakley v. Leppert
After watching tonight’s debate on WFAA’s website, I am still up in the air about who to vote for. I think both have good qualities as well as equally bad qualities. I think Leppert has good intentions but that nice guy act will get bulldozed by city council. I appreciate Oakley’s experience but that whole land bit concerns me. What to do? And tonight didn’t help.
The streaming debate, later to be aired Sunday morning at (yawwwwn) 7am on Channel 8, had Belo-ites Gromer Jeffers (DMN) and Chris Heinbaugh (WFAA City Hall) asking the tough questions to each candidate and they weren’t letting up regarding crime, the Super Bowl, leadership and negative campaigns. Leppert and Oakley were fairly contained and composed but some oh-so sweet moments happened between the two. Especially Leppert’s comment that his company builds schools “Oakley builds bars.” Meow. Oakley threw in a few punches by pointing out Leppert’s recent ads questioning his credibility while responding to questions about his own negative campaign against The Lepp. But neither seemed to offer concrete visions for the city and Heinbaugh pointed that out. I never got a feel that specific plans were in place for their idea of what the city should be under their leadership although Oakley had more credible answers to that.
Sadly, all I really wanted to see was the awkward nanosecond handshake at the end between the candidates. Because after 45 minutes in, I wasn’t and still am not sure who to vote for. Although I know who I’m leaning toward. I’m hoping my mind will be made up after breakfast, Friday morning so I can head out to the early voting booths and be done with it all,.
