Sunday’s editorial offers our thoughts on the choices before
Myrtle Beach
city voters in the Nov. 3 election.
"Myrtle Beach residents
who are sick of the bickering that plagues city government can bring it to an
end by choosing Judy Rodman as their next mayor. [She] offers residents a
soft-spoken, collegial personal style and steely intellect ... [and] has a far
better chance than her opponents of forging the council into a cohesive
policy-making group whose decisions make sense."
- The Sun News, Oct. 30, 2005,
editorial recommendation
Four years ago, Myrtle Beach's governing body was high drama,
a comedy for the outside world looking in, but tragedy for those of us who
cared about the characters. Mark McBride had been mayor for eight years, and
during that time had repeatedly drawn the eyes of the country, the state and
the city to Myrtle Beach
in derision. Either of his opponents, longtime Councilwoman Judy Rodman and
businessman John Rhodes, seemed to be an improvement, but Rodman in particular
possessed exactly the blend of perceptiveness and peacemaking the city
desperately needed, and still does. McBride and Rhodes edged Rodman in a close
three-way race, and Rhodes (with her
endorsement) defeated McBride in the runoff, but oh, four years later, how we
long for a choice as clear as we had then.
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