The K Report

   Kronenwetter Residents and Voters,    In an attempt to help voters be as fully informed as possible, I have provided the complete text of my answers to reporter Brian Kowalski's questions that he used as a basis for his latest City Pages Article.    Overall, I won't complain too much about how Mr, Kowalski presented things, but since he ignored so much information, I am h oping that this post will be much more informative to you about my work as trustee, than the news article was.     I think that what could have been a much longer, more informative article, was cut short due to insufficient answers by incumbent Voll (candidate Straub apparently got cold feet at the last minute and did not provide any answers).    Also, while we realize that everything cannot be included in every article, compare the answers below to the article, and note how selective reporters and editors can be in what they choose to publish and not p...

 

 

  ken charneski Kronenwetter • 17 hr ago   A candidates view of the forum.  In general, I think many questions were mundane enough, however there were a couple of clearly tendentious questions from the audience that provided a soapbox for one candidate's negative campaigning about some vague, personal beef she suddenly has with Village Board “leadership”, and employee turnover.     The questions came from the audience in written form, and the forum committee decided which ones would be presented. I was disappointed to find out afterward that some very pertinent and even-handed questions from the audience were ignored while they took new questions more amenable to more liberal ideologies.     The format of the forum was such, that 90 seconds gave plenty of time for someone to make false claims and accusations without substantiating them, while that same time frame made it nearly impossible to decisively rebut such claims with the factual d...