Dan Corbin posted this on his facebook page. I hope he won't mind me quoting it; it he does, I'll remove the quote.
"Pol ad by Dan Corbin. I attended the Chamber Mixer at the new Nursing
Building on the CTC campus. The building is beautiful. Then Linda and I
had dinner and then drove to Houston where I have a seminar on Fri
about how to choose and court a jury. This is an unusual campaign
because I rarely see any of my opponents on the campaign trail."ency
If I were running against Dan, he wouldn't have seen me, either. I didn't know about a mixer at the nursing school. Maybe it was in the newspaper. I read the paper pretty thoroughly, but I could have missed it. I don't think I can blame any of the other mayoral candidates for missing it, too.
I think Dan's comment throws a strong light on the mayoral race. Are we looking for a candidate who is tight with the Chamber and gets explicit invitations to functions like this? Or are we looking for someone to represent a wide constituency?
I'm not prepared yet to say that these are two different persons. Perhaps Dan Corbin can balance his insider credentials with the need to look outside that narrow constituency. But he hasn't proven it yet, and his facebook post didn't help.
I don't think they are advertised all that well, but Wes King and I routinely attended the monthly Chamber mixers when Crown Technologies was in full swing. Mostly local businesspeople networking from what I remember. I don't think it's all that political, but it probably can't hurt.
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I remember seeing him there fairly often then, presumably to represent his law firm, so I don't think this is purely political. Again, it can't hurt.
ReplyDeleteI belonged to the GKCC for many years, as a business, non-profit, and private citizen. Several years ago, they tried to have a small business section but defined a small business by organizations such as CTC, and the 1st National Bank. In this complicated historic Killeen election, there probably will be few of the many candidates seen at the usual GKCC functions, because of their closed network policies.
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