Excerpts from an Apr 24, 2008 Glass City Jungle posting : (image and highlighting added by me)
Keith Wilkowski Holds Commanding Lead In Likely 2009 Challenge To Carty Finkbeiner
The Wilkowski for Mayor Exploratory Committee today releases results of a poll showing former Lucas County Commissioner Keith Wilkowski would win a head-to-head race against incumbent Carty Finkbeiner by a margin of 59.2%-13.5% “if the election for Mayor of the City of Toledo were held tomorrow.” The survey of 300 likely Toledo voters was conducted earlier this month by Stanford H. Odesky & Associates and has a margin of error of +/-5.7%.
Significantly, the poll also found that only 15.9% of Toledo voters believe the city is “headed in the right direction” while 69% feel things “have gotten off on the wrong track.”
“Toledoans are hungry for change and they believe that Keith Wilkowski represents that change,” says Ben Krompak, a Toledo-based political consultant and Wilkowski supporter.
Wilkowski’s 45.7% lead is reflected in an initial head-to-head ballot question. It is not a result of respondents hearing positive or negative messaging on either candidate but rather a reflection of where voters stand based on the information they have today. After respondents received positive profiles of both candidates, Wilkowski builds on his lead, garnering 73.4% to Finkbeiner’s 11%, a margin of 62.4%.
Asked to identify major issues facing residents in Toledo today, an overwhelming majority of respondents (72.5%) expressed concerns related to the city’s economy.
“Now more than ever, fundamental changes are needed to turn Toledo around,” says Wilkowski.
“Throughout my career, I have worked to bring people together to find innovative solutions to tough problems. As we move forward in this exploratory process, I look forward to sharing with Toledoans my vision for our city’s future.”
Google search of Toledo Talk on 'Wilkowski'.
A couple threads ahead of the 2005 mayoral election process :
- December 16, 2004 - Carty Finkbeiner lovefest
- May 25, 2005 - Poll says Everybody would beat Ford
- June 5, 2005 - What Will Wilkowski Do?
September 2005 mayoral primary results (22% voter turnout) :
| Carty Finkbeiner | 15283 | 36.74% |
| Jack Ford | 10910 | 26.23% |
| Keith Wilkowski | 9750 | 23.44% |
| Rob Ludeman | 5386 | 12.95% |
| Opal Covey | 110 | 0.26% |
| Don Gozdowski | 91 | 0.22% |
| Martin Okonski | 64 | 0.15% |
Wilkowski waited until June 2005 to announce that he was running for mayor.
As to the two Lucas County Democrat Teams, Wilkowski is A-Team and Finkbeiner is B-Team.
March 12, 2007 Toledo Blade story titled Majority in survey give Finkbeiner poor rating :
After two terms as mayor and a four-year hiatus, Mr. Finkbeiner unseated fellow Democrat Jack Ford in 2005 with about 62 percent of the vote. Going into that election Mr. Finkbeiner had a 68 percent approval rating. It fell to 53 percent before the November, 2006, election. It currently stands at 40.6 percent, about 10 points lower than Mr. Ford’s rating before he lost his re-election bid to Mr. Finkbeiner.
Almost 69 percent of respondents in the poll say Mr. Finkbeiner should be replaced in the 2009 election, although the poll indicates that a favored successor has yet to emerge.
Is Wilkowski going to finally downsize the Toledo government, or what?
posted by GuestZero on Apr 24, 2008 at 01:02:32 pm #