Mayoral Candidate Forum - Southwest Louisville

The Southwest Dream (http://www.swdreamteam.org/) is organizing a question and answer forum for the Louisville Mayoral Candidates. They are seeking your input for specific questions to be considered for the candidates to address. The event will be held in April. The date, time, and location will be announced soon.

Click here to submit a question to be considered for the forum.

Where Were You When We Needed You, Mr. Roboto?

- 89.3 WFPL's Gabe Bullard reports on the 25th District council race HERE The blogger he interviews is awesome. The robo-calling Councilman Hawkins is urged by all to give up the auto-dialer. More to come...

- The Local Weekly says the previous owner of Valley Skate Zone in Valley Station has begun renovating the vacant Salvation Army Thrift Store building at 7846 Dixie Highway. The new rink will be 21,000 square feet of fun and will be named PRP Skate Zone. The old rink was demolished to make way for the new Kroger store.

- Our Southwest Library is featuring the works of some local artists through March 31. The library has an agreement to showcase the work with the Metro Arts Center, 8360 Dixie Highway. Stop in today and support your local artists.

Southwest Seeks VA Outpatient Center

From the Local Weekly:

Efforts are being made by local officials and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to locate an outpatient medical center at the Iroquois Homes. The Southwest Louisville/Iroquois area is the ideal place for an outpatient center. There are many veterans living in and nearby the community, including those who may locate or visit here from Fort Knox. There are already a number of health care professionals in the community and additional jobs could be created if the center was located in this area. If you wish to find out more information and to sign a petition to bring the V.A. outpatient center to southwest Louisville, go to: www.swdreamteam.org

*Boil Water Advisory* - Windsor Forest Area

From WHAS11:

Customers are encouraged to boil all water used in cooking or drinking for three minutes and not use water from refrigerators or ice from ice machines.

Streets involved in the Boil Water Advisory Include:

Alydar Court, Arnoldtown Road, Arnoldtown Woods Road, Bambi Way, Bold Ruler Way, Clayton Terrace, Coach Way, Docks Lane, Fox Ridge Court, Gatecreek Road, Gateview Circle, Gateview Place, Hardwood Forest Drive, Hi View Lane, Hill Top Manor Road, Holiday Drive, James Hill Road, Joe Don Court, Lakeridge Drive, Lakewood Drive, Mitchell Lane, Mountain Brook Drive, Norma Lee Drive, Paralee Drive, Pine Grove Court, Princess Wood Court, Queenswood Road, Regal Pine Court, Rica Road, Rush Court, Secretariat Drive, Smarty Jones Drive, Split Rail Drive, St. Anthony Church Road, St. Anthony Woods Court, Stonecrest Drive, Sunnys Halo Court, Timber Hills Road, Twin Lakes Court, Waverly Park Road, Windsor Forest Drive, Windsor Lakes Court and Windsor Lakes Parkway.

Shallow Hal Refuses Debate

My old friend, former coworker, radio host and fellow blogger Ed Springston has received word that 19th district Metro Councilman and Republican candidate for mayor Hal Heiner has refused to appear on Ed's radio show for a debate with Chris Thieneman. Hal's gang gives flimsy excuses on the refusal and sheepishly accuses Ed of extreme bias. Read all about it HERE.

Shallow Hal's campaign is clearly doomed and is now showing the fear.

An aside: Every time you hear Heiner speak, he brags about creating thousands of jobs in Louisville. He claims, as mayor, that he will bestow his genius upon the unwashed masses in order to continue to create jobs...but the only thing Hal is creating is an illusion.  In 1997, Hal "tapped into his life savings", bought some cheap land and developed it using out of town contractors.  A few companies moved in and hired some people at a low wage, and BANG!  That's Hal's record of "creating jobs".  I can tell you about a few more jobs he didn't create in Louisville. His campaign website, www.halformayor.com, was created by The Stoneridge Group, 554 W. Main Street, Tannery Row, Bldg. A - Suite 200, Buford, GA 30518.

That's Georgia, and that's all folks.

Mayoral Debate on Downtown Development

89.3 WFPL will air live coverage of the Mayoral Forum today at noon from the Convention Center. The debate will focus on issues related to development in downtown Louisville.


Listen live HERE.


UPDATE: Some of these candidates surprised me.  It sounded as though a few of them wandered into the room, strolled on stage and got miked by mistake. In case you missed the live broadcast, the archived version can be found by clicking HERE.

Analysis: Tyler Allen has found his voice, formed his message and is pounding it home. Allen is the clear winner here, outclassing the rest of the field by miles. Sharp answers. Passion. Intellect. Has a vision for Louisville and articulated it well. Very impressive. The rest (according to my notes) in no particular order: "Shallow Hal" Heiner erroneously continues to take credit for creating jobs by leasing warehouses to companies who actually do the hiring. Katie King's dad sounded as arrogant as ever because, well, he is smarter than you and way more successful. King also acted as though downtown was some sort of lawless war zone that needed its own police force to control the crime there. Chris Theineman stated Louisville was the most heavily taxed city in the country, said "uh" a thousand times and consistently turned to the shopworn tactic of beating up on Jerry Abramson (who is not in the race, by the way). Shannon White knows how to dress herself as well as other women and thinks Macy's is a small local business. The smartest one, Jackie Green, is an eccentric that can make the race fun just by telling the truth. Burrel Farnsley drinks too much and possibly had a few [dozen] before showing up today wearing shorts.  The monotone, utterly unexciting drone that is ice-machine inventor and self-described "entrepreneur" Greg Fischer needs to use the "big boy" voice when he shows up somewhere to campaign.  David Tandy failed to menace. Tandy's jobs program is based on Louisville's mayor revamping the Commonwealth of Kentucky's education system, which is impossible.

More to come soon, and thanks for making The Valley Report a part of your day.