Matt Czajkowski
In this ten-minute rant, Chapel Hill Town Council Member Matt Czajkowski first lectures the entire room (which includes affordable housing experts and experienced elected officials) about basic economics, goes on to blame the town for home prices rising, and then just straight out yells at everyone for several minutes. Beware, this content is anxiety-triggering for me, possibly for others too.
In general most politician's campaign materials lack details. Its easy to say we're going to reduce taxes, but much, much harder to identify what to cut, so I'm not going to rule him out based on that. What did make up my mind, however, is his misunderstanding of mixed-use developments:
The race to be Chapel Hill's next Mayor is too close to call. Matt
Czajkowski leads Mark Kleinschmidt 45-44, a difference that suffice it
to say is within the margin of error.
The
key finding in the poll underscoring how divided the community is
headed into election day is that 49% of voters think the town is headed
in the right direction while 51% think it's off on the wrong track.
That should make for closely contested races both for Mayor and Town
Council.
I continue to be amazed by the number of people who tell me they don't see a huge difference between Mark Kleinschmidt and Matt Czajkowski. These folks usually describe themselves as "progressive"
(as do I, for the record) but they say they're voting for Matt based
on some single issue. Let me tell you, folks, I believe there is a
huge difference between these two mayoral candidates, and I think
anyone who is concerned with social, racial, or economic justice will find
themselves disappointed in a Czajkowski mayoralty.
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