4/26/2023 - We reached out to Mr. Mobolade informing him that we were getting many requests from Integrity Matters supporters for him to answer our survey.  Many of the candidates informed us that our survey was the most challenging and direct including questions and issues about which voters care very  much. So, we did meet with Mr. Mobolade to discuss many of the issues.  Below are his answers to our survey.  While we very much like him on a personal level, our opinion is that he is very weak on understanding issues.  He did not answer the yes or no portion to the questions which we and many supporters found highly objectionable -- very political. 

 

Of deepest concern were his answers to the Broadmoor Land Swap and trading away Strawberry Fields which we believe he did a very cursory look and concluded he would support that corrupt land heist of the people's historic parkland.  We were also very unhappy with this responses to RetoolCOS which we believe will be devastating to neighborhoods.  His comment that the infill doesn't affect existing neighborhoods demonstrates a gross misunderstanding of how detrimental flex-zoning will be to neighborhoods as well as the public safety dangers of infill in high risk WUI areas where the evacuation times are already life-threatening.  We were also very disappointed with the response on evacuation modeling -- hist answer mentions fire mitigation which is the City's talking point to try and avoid the evacuation modeling and reporting of times discussion altogether because the developers don't want it. 

 

We have been bombarded with questions about for whom to vote.  We will not tell people who to vote for, but rather view the important role we serve is to raise red flags. Having said that, we continue to maintain that Wayne Williams will be catastrophic for this City for the many reasons we have enunciated, especially and including, his deceptive campaign claims and the fact that his wife, Holly Williams, is a County Commissioner.  Wayne's ascendancy to mayor would also complete the HBA/Gazette/Suthers (and father-son power brokers Chris & David Jenkins') picks for the city leadership for which they spent millions of dollars duping voters with nonsensical "Water Warrior" direct mail pieces that were funded by Dark Money groups "Citizens for Responsible Leadership" and "Citizens for Protecting Our Water".  We will leave the choice up to you, but we believe Wayne Williams to be as bad as it gets in terms of selling-out to his developer donors at the expense of our public interest and public safety, and you can read about it here -- it's in his votes and his record.  To paraphrase Maya Angelo, "When people tell you who they are, believe them."  Wayne Williams has repeatedly told us who he is.