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Uploaded: Saturday, October 20, 2007, 5:16 PM
VIDEO: Council candidates talk about the issues
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| To help voters become familiar with candidates running for Palo Alto City Council and the Palo Alto Unified School District Board of Education, Palo Alto Online is posting video interviews with each person.
The interviews were conducted by Palo Alto Weekly Publisher Bill Johnson and members of the newspaper's editorial staff. In the videos, candidates speak about an array of local issues -- such as the city's library system, proposed Stanford development and Mandarin immersion -- as well as each person's reasons for running for office.
This is the first election season during which Palo Alto Online staff has posted video interviews of council and school-board hopefuls. Ten of the 11 council candidates participated (Stella Marinos declined), as did all six campaigners for school board.
Candidates are vying for four open seats on the City Council and three seats on the school board. Click on a candidate's name below for the video and a brief biography.
Note: The video will open in a separate window. If the video is not loading, please make sure you have downloaded the most current version of Flash.
Pat Burt
Dan Dykwel
Sid Espinosa
Victor Frost
Tim Gray
Stella Marinos
Mark Nadim
William Ross
Greg Schmid
Smokey Wallace
Yiaway Yeh
Election 2007: Stories, links and resourcesEditor's note: Stella Marinos was not avialable for a video interview. The school board videos will be posted the week of Oct. 29. — Palo Alto Online staff
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Posted by Logical, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Oct 24, 2007 at 5:31 pm I read them all, and watched as much as I could stomach.
The only video That captured my attention was Smokey Wallace.
All the others are the same old issues and answers from council candidates going back for years.
Smokey is the only one who shows any new pragmatic rational thinking about Palo Alto issues.
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Posted by PAT ROBINSON, a resident of the College Terrace neighborhood, on Oct 27, 2007 at 3:22 pm Bill Ross is my choice for a new voice on the City Council. He is an honest, straight-forward person who has legitimate concerns for our city. We need his experience and his rich knowledge about city government. I sincerely hope that he will be elected to represent all of the citizens of Palo Alto. He will make an enormous contribution to the future of Palo Alto.
( Pointing out that he as spent money to hire a political consultant seemed naive to me. Most of the fliers and brochures that we receive have been originated by professionals.)
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Posted by R Wray, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood, on Oct 27, 2007 at 4:17 pm I agree with Logical except I would leave his words "pragmatic rational" and just put it as "new thinking". I will probably vote for only Wallace.
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Posted by Joanne, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Nov 6, 2007 at 11:40 am Smokey Wallace is right on target!
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Posted by huh?, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Nov 6, 2007 at 12:26 pm When did the School Board videos get mixed up with the Council ones??
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2007 Awards from the California
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Palo Alto Weekly
First Place
Local News Coverage
Local Breaking-News Story
Feature Story
Second Place
Feature Story
Environmental Reporting
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Photo Essay
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First Place
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Editorial Pages
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Second Place
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