2024 Richmond Mayoral Forum

[@RealJustINRVA]

For Roday: Why is it with your membership to the Ukrops clan, that the Salvation Army, on which you are a board member, serves rations that are barely better than what's served at the Richmond jail?

[@richardernsberger5692]

Avula just wants to expand more programs, give more taxpayer money, to the city's many low-income residents. That's not what Richmond needs--and giving people things never does anything to solve the poverty problem long-term. It essentially amounts to wasting taxpayer money on very sort-term fixes. Candidates like him are always promising to help pull people out of poverty as part of their campaign rhetoric. It's nonsense. Mayors and cities can't do that; people ultimately have to help themselves. Avula wants to promote "deeply affordable" housing for low-income residents. What does "deeply affordable" mean? It sounds like it means more subsidies for people who've made bad decisions in their lives and need to be bailed out by people who've made sound decisions. If urban social programs had any real utility, cities like Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans, Detroit and Richmond would have been fixed/improved a long time ago. They haven't been. The job of a mayor is to manage city employees and city government and city departments //efficiently//. Richmond should be working to attract more businesses and more middle-income residents to the city, which would tangibly improve the city. Richmond's schools desperately need more students from stable, middle-income families.

[@RealJustINRVA]

That was impressively arrogant and uniformed. Thank you for helping explain exactly why Dr. Avula deserves my vote. He has a perspective you don't want any part of learning so you can make better-informed statements instead of this Darwinist drivel. We are fortunate that all you will be doing is staying on the couch.

[@singanewsong6727]

@@richardernsberger5692 you’re spot on. Richmond, like most other Democrat run cities, values mediocrity and high crime. We’re a city full of masochists. Is a Republican even running?

[@singanewsong6727]

@@RealJustINRVAyou just choose to name-call and tear down- the quintessential Richmond Democrat.

[@RealJustINRVA]

@@singanewsong6727 English is a tough language, I’ll grant you that. But words like “uninformed” and “arrogant” are adjectives. And honestly, you only further prove my point assuming I’m a democrat. Any other racially based ASSumptions you want to make?

[@singanewsong6727]

@@RealJustINRVA there you go again, tearing people down. Stupid is also an adjective, so what’s your point? And I’m black too. Miss me with that BS.