Well, looks like we saw the one and only Mayoral debate there's going to be last night before the November 2nd election. You can blame that on Sam 'the Weathervane Millennial' Joshi. Seems he prefers to hide behind all his Dem-party endorsements and money to risk mixing it up and exposing his weak candidacy - more than once.
If you want to call last nights event a 'debate' then you're sorely mistaken. All you got was Joshi touting the Dem-party line and Hahn missing every other opportunity to point that out. We did learn though that Joshi doesn't know how to debate and clearly lacks the charisma needed to bring people together.
Be that as it may, last night's event was sponsored by the League of Woman's Voters and Together Edison and consisted of some opening remarks, a series of questions with an opportunity for rebuttal and some closing remarks.
The questions were surface level in nature and covered such areas as plans for the first 6 months in office, wards, the master plan, smart growth water & sewer traffic and air quality, seniors, overcrowding, climate crisis, the budget, sustainable high paying jobs and the marijuana situation.
Joshi's 'plans' for Edison were so ridiculous and out of touch with reality that Hahn should of been all over his political rhetoric and lack of connection to what he has done over his time on the Council. Joshi should of paid more attention to what Hahn was saying instead of concentrating on his next prepared set of comments.
Hahn should of spent more time showing Joshi has a nothing record and he can't bridge the gap between that and his grandiose plans for the future, which by way, will be nothing more than what the Powers that Be in the Dem-party says they will be.
Joshi should of tried to be more appealing to the Public rather than his robotic memorization of his talking points. He should of been all over Hahn when he flipped to supporting that 1-Cent Forever Open Space tax, aka Fool's tax but he didn't because it's a Dem-party grab for more of your tax money by getting you to tax yourself to fund their excesses.
Overall, Hahn missed some great opportunities to show Joshi for what he is and Joshi was able to skate by as the undemocratically selected, hand-picked tool of the Democratic-party for more of the same here in Edison with only a few hits on his climb-up the Dem-party political ladder and the expense of the People of Edison.
It should of been really, really easy, even with the questions asked to point out how ill-prepared and qualified Joshi is to make the jump to being Mayor of a town the size of Edison.
The only good thing was to see how Joshi handled himself and what you can expect to get from him and the Dem-party if you seriously go against your best interests and vote for him - Nothing but what you've been getting for years now, except on steroids.
Here's the event:
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