Which candidate for mayor has the backing of Columbia’s business establishment?
Boone Hospital Center trustee chairman Bob McDavid, almost exclusively, according to the list of people who signed petitions to put candidates’ names on the April ballot. (Here’s a link to the Missourian Web site with the transcribed lists: http://thewatchword.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/candidate-petitions-have-some-familiar-names/
Sid Sullivan got Planning & Zoning Chairman Jeff Barrow to sign his petition, along with commercial realtor Paul Land and School Board member Ines Segert. Jerry Wade, despite being a council member already, had few recognizable names from the business community.
Here are just a sampling from McDavid’s petition: Chamber of Commerce President Don Laird and Vice President Kristi Ray; Chamber Chairman and ABC Labs President Byron Hill; Jason Thornhill, realtor and Second Ward representative on the Council; Bruce Walker, the MU business school dean; Boone Hospital Center President Daniel Rothery, former mayor and MBS Textbooks CEO Bob Pugh, former council member Larry Schuster and a who’s who of local business executives, including Kevin Gibbens, Sabrina McDonnell and Terry Coffelt from Landmark Bank; Scott Atkins, Skip Grossnickle, Charles Digges and Jason Swindle from The Insurance Group, Jay Gebhardt, Bob and Rosie Gerding, Mike Vangel and Rob Wolverton.
Categories: City Politics, Local Issues, Politics.
Does McDavid’s campaign have a Web site?