Some agreement, some friction, no dancing at Lexington mayoral forum

The first Lexington mayor’s forum featured the mayor, vice mayor and a former mayor taking shots at one another, and a fourth candidate making accusations of widespread public corruption.

And the whole world was (potentially) watching.

The Awesome Issues forum, sponsored by the University of Kentucky’s Scripps Howard First Amendment Center, was held in a small space in a technology incubator on Main Street but was available on Facebook, Twitter, and video and word blogs.

The three major candidates Mayor Jim Newberry, Vice Mayor Jim Gray and former Mayor Teresa Isaac found several areas where they could agree: economic development and jobs are important, they said, and young people, who were more likely to be following the high-tech forum, should be given more consideration in the affairs of the city.

But it wasn’t a lovefest, especially between Newberry and Gray. Consider CentrePointe:
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