–submitted by Ellsworth Brown
Club member Joy Cardin moderated a classic Rotary forum for the two candidates for the Dane County Executive Director’s seat: five-term State Senator Melissa Agard, and Dana Pellebon, current Executive Director of RCC Sexual Violence Resource Center.
Joy directed a series of pre-selected questions to each candidate in turn, each responding with two-minute answers and then three-minute closing statements.
The forum revealed clear differences in experience and style between the candidates and thus also signaled a change in approach for this report. Their multiple answers were rapid-fire, challenging to report, and impossible to review without revealing this scribe’s conclusions about each person.
The good news is there is a video record of the forum, and viewing it enables those who missed the program to form clear and independent opinions about the candidates and their readiness for the job: https://youtu.be/se6oPsuQI4o.
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