High Point City Council At-Large General Election

Cynthia Davis vs Mary Lou Andrews Andrews Blakeney vs Britt Moore vs Don Scarborough

The two candidates I voted for finished fifth and last respectively in the primary. As a result, I have a very difficult decision ahead.

Out of the candidates who advanced, only Blakeney is worth the endorsement and the vote.

I have never really been a fan of Cynthia Davis or her ideology. Her clear stance on the stadium has turned her from being the most popular candidate in 2014 to being on the ropes to keep her seat.

As for Moore, his stance on revitalization during his second term was inconsistent to say the least. He is a supporter of a downtown stadium, which landed him the support of a pro-business PAC. Even though he is one of only two registered independents (Monica Peters in Ward 3 is the other), his stances don't impress me much and I have never voted for him and won't this time either.

The fourth person, Scarborough, is all in for the downtown project. However, I can't support him because High Point University (his former employer) carries its own baggage. Alienating residents by cutting off a part of Montlieu Avenue to them because the administration wanted a medical school at all costs but it couldn't successfully persuade Sears and Dillard's to leave Oak Hollow Mall loses points with me. Secondly, the naming of any street after Martin Luther King, Jr. became an incredibly unnecessary controversy in early 2015. Kivett Drive should have been left alone while South College Drive should have been given the MLK Drive designation, and North College should have been named University Parkway. Instead, the school wanted the entire College Drive corridor named University Parkway. Naturally, the City Council did HPU's bidding and wiped off the Kivett Drive designation west of Business 85.

I have also decided that writing in Megan Longstreet as a protest vote would be a better option than supporting any of the previous three candidates.