Ask Omaha Steve a Question. You're the Press. Help Steve Get Elected.

[Mr Mannn]

The guy is in his first election. He needs help. We know he lurks here allah time. Lets give him some much needed practice with the press. Some questions will be adversarial, yes, but that is the nature of the press. All politicians need to be press savvy.

Steve. Unions. How will being a union guy help you lead Bellevue. Will you push for compulsory union membership? Will you seek only to contract out to Union shops? What if a non-union shop is cheaper and just as good? As steward of taxpayer funds will you go for the cheaper non-union shops?

See Steve. That wasn't so hard. You can start a similar thread in DU and get a more friendly audience...BUT.
If you want a few harder hitting questions, come back here.

Go ahead and ask away. Put your question in italics & Bold, so its easier for Steve to see them.

If an occupy movement parks its but in a Bellvue city park...will you welcome them? How will you handle the inevitable occupier drug use and pooping in the city streets that will result? as city councilman that will become YOUR personal problem.  

[AllosaursRus]

hey Steve, do ya 'spose you'll be able to balance the budget every year in Bellevue, or will you follow most Democrats and overspend the peoples money?

Inquiring minds want to know. After all isn't that what Socialism, of which you advocate, is all about. Spending other peoples money until there's nothing but deficits as far as we can see!

[Ogre]

Mr. Dawes, I've noticed that Bellevue city council meeting begin with the Pledge of Allegiance and an Invocation.  As an avowed socialist will you abstain from partaking in these displays of public faith?  

http://www.bellevue.net/CityInformation/MinutesAgenda.aspx

[Duke Nukum]

How will your commitment to Marxist ideas make the lives of the people who live and work in your city better?

[Big Dog]

Mr. Dawes,

Who has been more inspirational to you, Karl Marx or Mao Tse-Tung?

Which Bellevue citizens would you deprive of their money and property "according to their ability", in order to reward your supporters "according to their need"?

When you kissed Cindy Sheehan, did her mouth taste like Hugo Chavez' cock?   How did you know?

Inquiring minds want to know!

[formerlurker]

How are you going to pull off a disability claim when you are pulling in a salary for the council seat?   You really didn't think that one through did you Steve?

[franksolich]

Aw, give him at least one softball question.

Mr. Dawes, you like model railways.

Do you prefer Lionel gauge, HO gauge, or N gauge?

[Mike220]

Mr. Dawes,

When you kissed Cindy Sheehan, did her mouth taste like Hugo Chavez' cock?   How did you know?

Inquiring minds want to know!

 

I can barely see through all the Nutella and toast on my monitor now.

[AllosaursRus]

Aw, give him at least one softball question.

Mr. Dawes, you like model railways.

Do you prefer Lionel gauge, HO gauge, or N gauge?

Don't know about Stevie, but all my stuff is HO.

Been thinkin' 'bout N gauge though since it takes up less room and you can get more in a smaller space.

But that would mean I'd have to start from scratch. Guess I'll just stick with my HO for now. Have too much invested in buildings and locomotives to make an abrupt change.

Maybe if I collect a little at a time I can pull it off. I'm sure my grandkids won't let the HO stuff gather any dust!

[Big Dog]

I can barely see through all the Nutella and toast on my monitor now.

That gives me a great sense of accomplishment.

[Karin]

Mr. Dawes!  Mr. Dawes!  What is your take on the Susan Fluke controversy?  Should the good citizens of Bellvue be expected to finance the sex lives of everyone else?  If so, why? 

[NHSparky]

Uh, Steve?  Did you find it personally satisfying to yell at a Toyota salesman?  Or were you just, "speaking truth to power" in that case?

Also, will you be publicly soliciting funds to travel to college football games, or simply embezzling them from the public coffers, and when you do that, will you be sleeping on someone's floor, or putting yourself up at the finest establishments one can find on the taxpayer dime?

[Skul]

Mister Dawes. Is there a chin under that scruffy beard?

[NHSparky]

Mister Dawes. Is there a chin under that scruffy beard?

Oh, wow--Steve Dawes is secretly Ava the Chinless Butterball's deadbeat father???

This is TOO ****ING RICH!!!!!

[Doc Savage]

Steve, if a home owner is flying and American flag on a pole their front yard on a normal Nebraska breezy day, and the neighbor files a complaint about the flag flapping in the breeze and making noise.  Where do you come down on that?

[jukin]

Mister Dawes, does 1+1=POTATO or does 1+1=HAM?

[shadeaux]

OS, will you accuse a citizen in your district of stalking should they call on you more than once during your term ?

Will your union duties interfere with your council duties should you actually win ?  If not, can you honestly say the people you may represent will come before any and all union business ? I ask because you seem to eat, sleep and talk nothing but union. People like loyalty but not a butt kisser.

Will you give city contracts to your union buddies ?

You do realize your phone number has to be public should you win. Will your paranoia keep you from making it public ?

If you'd take advice from a nasty crazy bitch like Grasswire, can you be right in the head ? What can you tell the people to ease their minds from thinking you're not nutty like that ? Do you own a red wagon with apples in it ?

Would you be willing to shave that bird nest on your face ?  I don't think I can take you seriously with all that hair going on.

How much does a city councilman make in Bellevue ?  

[FiddyBeowulf]

And to think unions and socialists used to be on the same page. I’ve always backed socialism. Together with labor the team passed workers comp, unemployment insurance, and several other important worker protections. I’d be interested in any reply, update, correction, etc., you might have or publish.

Steven L Dawes

Steve,
Given your support for unions and socialists, whose interests will you be looking out for if you get elected, the taxpayers or the city's union employees?

Steve,
Given your support for unions and socialists, if an OWS group shows up in your city and decides to squat somewhere and protest for a month, whose interests will you be looking out for, the smelly, jobless hippies or the union thug Police?

Steve,
Given your support for unions and socialists how come you are running as a Democrat(ic) and not a Socialist?

[shadeaux]

Why do you hate Walmart ?

Should you win, will you shop at Walmart ?

[Airwolf]

Mr. Dawes . What is it like to be a walking Twatwaffle?

[Karin]

Mister Dawes, does 1+1=POTATO or does 1+1=HAM?

OT:  That reminded me of an exchange at work.

Me, in writing:  Who do we contact to get an explanation of these negatives?

Reply, in writing:  Yes. 

 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Mr. Dawes, in regard to the events of September 11, 2001, which theory do you subscribe to: MIHOP or LIHOP?

[miskie]

Do you prefer Lionel gauge, HO gauge, or N gauge?

*miskie has a sizable collection of vintage HO gauge trains [/geek]

[Chris_]

*miskie has a sizable collection of vintage HO gauge trains [/geek]

Do you get 'Tracks Ahead' in your area?  It comes on Saturday before noon around here.

[BlueStateSaint]

Do you get 'Tracks Ahead' in your area?  It comes on Saturday before noon around here.

In the basement of one of the buildings of Renselaer Polytechnic Institute, referred to as RPI, is a rather large (several rooms) HO-gauge "train set."  I went to see it about 13 or so years ago.  The detail in the "set" is unreal.  

Also, west of Allentown PA is Roadside America (I think it's till there).  It is a huge O-gauge "set" that's easily many tens of thousands of square feet.  It's a tourist attraction.

Steve isn't.