Binghamton's District 6
The Candidate:
Scott Hurst
The issues:
The city has burdened the taxpayers with the bailout of large hotels,
and in the meantime, it has neglected basic services, such as the water system, requiring residents to boil water at one point.
The plan to privatize garbage collection, while laudable in concept, just isn't flying. Market reforms can't ignore the consumer! Scott wants to make sure the city's infrastructure works.
Challenges to running:
As a 'third-party' candidate, Scott first faced petitioning obstacles that the major parties don't need to worry about. He collected 215 signatures from the voters of Binghamton's District 6. Then, the competition erected legal challenges to the signatures, on technicalities about the forms Scott had used. Scott successfully faced the appellate court and won a decision, helping to clear the path for future independent candidates. The Press and Sun-Bulletin applauded that decision, in an editorial on October 11th.
Scott's platform:
To help get the city focused back on providing basic services, not on speculative business deals.
Biography:
