Meet the Candidates
By Justin Wallace
Having served six years as a city commissioner and six years as mayor, Pageen Hanrahan is now term-limited and stepped down as the mayor of Gainesville.
Now the race beings. Five candidates have officially qualified for the Gainesville mayoral race. They all have different points of view on a variety of issues and none have any party affiliation. So, let’s break it down:
Oswald “Ozzy” Angulo
-Opposes meal-limits for homeless
-Supports decreased city government spending
-Supports increased aid to GPD
Monica Leadon Cooper
-Supports the “greening” of local businesses and incubation of local green businesses
-Implementation of fiscal conservatism and “stopping wasteful spending” by the government
-Promotes environmental protection and conservation through government action
-Promotes the cleanup of the Cabot-Koppers Superfund site
-Supports mass transit and bicycle travel promotion
-Promotes nutrition and fitness programs in Gainesville’s schools
Don Marsh
-Opposes the GRU biomass plant
-Supports a decrease in local government spending
-Supports tax cuts on all local business
-Opposes the proposed OneStop homelessness policy
-Supports helping homeless by giving aid to local charities
-Supports revision of the Gainesville Transgender Ordinance
Richard Selwach
-Supports environmental enforcement
-Promotes citing and fining the Cabot-Koppers Superfund site 1000 dollars a day
-Promotes amendments to the Gainesville Transgender Ordinance
-Against the proposed GRU biomass plant
Craig Lowe
-Promotes “revitalizing” less-developed neighborhood areas
-Promotes solar energy feed-in tariff for local businesses
-Supports increasing environmental conservation
-Supports implementation of the Innovation Gainesville Program
-Promotes enhancement of economic development in “traditionally African American” neighborhoods.
Gainesville, FL
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