. . and that’s what my campaign is all about! Our community is filled with brilliant minds—minds I’d like to put to work to solve the problems that Mayor Brewster and the present administration have let fester over the years. Maybe they hoped that those problems would just solve themselves! Or that you, the voters, would forget that those problems existed. But, my fellow citizens of Reardon, the way to solve our city’s problems is not to ignore them! No, it’s to tackle them head on! And that’s what I intend to do! There’s no reason that Reardon should be experiencing the economic downturn that it is. We have excellent natural resources, a willing workforce, and business leaders who are daring and bold. We should be soaring! But Mayor Brewster is simply not far-sighted enough to take the initiative and bring our community into the next century. ” “How long do you think this speech will last?” Pamela Barnes asked her colleague and friend Joan Bentley. It was a hot August day in the Southern college town of Reardon, and Pamela was hoping not to have to spend her entire afternoon standing outside in the blazing sun listening to a stump speech.
