The effective work of any city council requires collaboration and compromise. It is a team sport.
The current campaign rhetoric in Ashland that urges a “clean sweep” and “throw the bums out” and “status quo is bad” fosters the election of a special, business-wise slate that will bring the city back from the imaginary precipice of ruin. Such political schemes rarely work because successful municipal governance embraces the many issues that are not exclusively accounting/business decisions. Civic leadership requires a wider capacity for vision, empathetic understanding and community collaboration.
Tonya Graham fully comprehends this obligation and has repeatedly demonstrated such capacity. Her opponent does not. There is an obvious reason that four current city councilors have endorsed Tonya Graham and none her opponent. Please vote for Tonya Graham as the next mayor of Ashland.
