Politics Part 2

My entry about Steve Brewer and Mike Stone from two days ago (click here to see it) needs some clarity.
I’ll say first that the entry seems to have been responsible for three consecutive days of the most traffic that this blog has ever recieved, so apparently there’s interest. Even though nobody has commented on the blog publicly, I did receive an e-mail from Brewer who cleared up a misconception I had.
Brewer at Tuesday’s city council meeting took Stone to task for calling the council “self-serving and inwardly-focused” and “average-at-best.” I made a mistake in thinking Brewer meant Stone made those comments at Monday’s candidates forum, and when I couldn’t find any record of those comments at the forum, I pointed it out.
Turns out, Stone did make those comments. They appeared in The Herald on Oct. 10 in the Q&A section in which Stone and his election opponent, Lora Wright, each answered a series of questions.
Brewer said in his e-mail to me that the statements he made were not about politics.
“My comments Tuesday night were not about the political race,” he wrote. “It was about someone attacking the council and the city and spreading misinformation.”
I hesitate to call the statements Brewer references misinformation — I think it’s more a matter of semantics than anything else — but I’ll reiterate what I said a couple of days ago: This sort of debate is ultimately good for the city and for the voters.
In any case, don’t forget vote!