Final thoughts: Sami Sutton

Over the last few months you’ve gotten to know the candidates personally and politically as they’ve been kind enough to answer all of our questions. Even the silly ones.

With election day fast approaching and early voting already underway, we’ve invited all six of them to share some final thoughts. Just like the previous interviews, comments will be closed on these posts.

From Sami Sutton:
I want to remind the voters to look at our websites and to try to talk to us before making a definite decision. Research is always good! I want to tell people what I was thinking about the fundraiser comment, by the way North Little Rock does things like fundraisers all the time. It could be like a banquet with a speaker and just overly priced meals. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a bake sale. To address some more comments that were laid against me: I have seen a council meeting (I used to watch them for fun in high school), I had to get a petition signed just like every other candidate, I do know about the 2025 plan and I feel that South Pass goes against most of them, I am informed about most of these issues (some you can’t find anything about) and I am not stupid. I do not live on campus so whoever made the high-rise dorm comment should really get to know more about someone. If anyone wants to talk to me or meet somewhere or anything they can e-mail me from my website, or just read my website: samiformayor.com . I am serious about this race and feel that I am perfectly capable of running this city and going to school. I do better with more work.

I just want to remind people of my platform: I want to expand recycling to apartments, bars, and restaurants; I want to organize the construction on roads and trials; I want to find better youth programs and work on bringing business back; and I want to clean up Fayetteville. During the first year in office, I want to half all projects and re-organize everything. Go through the ordinances, go through the city and make a map of the streets that are high priority, re-due the budget and break it up into sections (each section will have there own allotted amount). I want to look for businesses and work with them to bring them to our great city. Take care of the little things everyone has overlooked. I would also say that I disagree with the amount the mayor gets paid, it’s way too much! I have always felt this way, you can ask anyone that knows me well. We can reduce taxes if we reduce the salary, or at least give the city employees their cost of living raise. I don’t agree with what Fire Cat says about levying ordinances to bring businesses in. He always talks about not having a sidewalk, but if we want people to stop driving then we need sidewalks. Plus they make it safer to walk to the building and back and the future will need them.

Please, please look up my website along with the other candidates to compare what we want to do with the city.