Randal: How would you use the bully pulpit for the good of the city and surrounding communities?
Trapeni: "I'd like to see us connect with tourism in surround communities because that's our lifeline. We have a brand here in the state for skiing and tourism. We have the four seasons. ... People connect Vermont with the Green Mountain State. ... They want to see not blighted areas, they want to see the pristine mountains, be able to bike, ski."
"We were a railroad town ... but that has gone by the wayside. We've seen it with the rail yard. That thing is 10 years old now and we can't even agree on what to do with it .. we have a lot of blighted areas because of the railroad."
"For years we have ignored the progress they've made at Killington. We need to connect with that ... even my business has grown because of that tourism."
Trapeni said we need to have more here than just Friday Night Live to attract tourists.
Louras: "I guess the best way I would answer that is to just continue what I've been doing. When critical issues come up I've been very vocal and very transparent, bringing them to the taxpayers."
Louras said that before he became mayor he doesn't remember any conversations about 150-year old infrastructure.
He points as other examples to the impared watershed classification of Moon Brook and the foreclosure crisis.
"I'd contend that I'd just continue doing what I've been doing, and as those critical issues come to my attention I'll bring them to the taxpayers."
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