Residents of Victoria have six can-didates at their front steps, each of them asking for entry into our lives in a rather significant way.  They want to make decisions regarding our health, safety, and welfare. It's not a small request. 
Three of them have knocked in the past and gained entry.  Jerry Bohn, Dave Lindgren, and Richard Tieden want our doors to remain open to their personali-ties, voting records, and visions for the City of Victoria.  Most of it has been recorded each month on the City Scoop pages of the Gazette, so these candidates should not be strangers as they stand before us.
This fall there are three other people knocking at our doors who want to make important decisions in our regard.  As usual, the Gazette makes introductions and asks questions so we can look through the peep hole and surmise the situation before we turn the knob.
Troy Walsh wants to unseat Mayor Jerry Bohn.  Vote for one. 
Kim Roden and Jeff Winship are asking for the seats currently occupied by Dave Lindgren and Richard Tieden.  Dave and Richard want to stay put in our lives.  It's all up to you, the residents of Victoria.  Vote for two.
[There is one other Victoria resident whose name will appear on the ballots for city office.  Brian Sund withdrew his candidacy on Monday night, October 4th, at a Candidate's Forum in Victoria spon-sored by the League of Women Voters, but not in time to keep his name off the ballot for Victoria City Council.]
If you could ask the candidates anything in the world, where would you start?  For this exposition, the following ten questions were posed to each of them:
1) Why are you running for city office?
2) How long have you been a resident of Victoria?
3) Where did you live previously, and what attracted you to Victoria?
4) Briefly, what is your education and background?
5) How long do you anticipate being a resident of Victoria?
6) What is your occupation and life's work?
7) Tell us, briefly, about your family and what you do for fun.
8) How has city government person-ally affected your life in Victoria?
9) If someone gave you $10 million to spend solely on/in/for the City of Vic-toria, how might you spend it?
10) If you were forced to make $200,000 worth of cuts in the city budget, which

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