PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Eleven people, including two incumbents, are running to serve on Portsmouth City Council. However, only three seats are available.
The candidates have criss-crossed the city making their campaign pitches at several forums. 13News Now recently caught up with all 11 at a forum held by the Port Norfolk Civic League. Here’s how each answered a key question by the moderator:
Sharon Anderson, business owner
What are your three top priorities if elected and why?
The first thing that I would advocate for if elected would be the mental health field workers. We have some people here in the city of Portsmouth who cannot advocate for themselves. So they need help, and that’s one thing that I would do. Number two, would be to bring civility to the council – civility in that we learn to work with each other because the image in Portsmouth is not good. And of course, number three is to bring businesses here to help us lower our taxes because that’s important to you.
Bruce LaLonde, Ret. Navy Captain
What are your three top priorities if elected and why?…