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 Kathy Swan |
Swan, 58, is president and owner of JCS Wireless. She is a two-term member of the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education and a member of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry Board of Directors.
Swan is a past member of the Cape Girardeau Planning and Zoning Commission and the Cape Girardeau Board of Education.
Swan is seeking to take over the seat held by two-term Councilwoman Marcia Ritter, who is prevented from seeking another term by the city charter.
After spending a great deal of free time on statewide concerns, Swan said she is running in order to give her attention to city issues. Her term on the coordinating board expires in June, she said.
"It is a good opportunity to focus some on Cape Girardeau," she said. "I want to see it continue to be a community that is prospering and progressing, conducive as a place to do business, work and raise a family."
The council seat will give her an opportunity to participate in implementing the recently completed city Comprehensive Plan and DREAM Initiative Master Plan, Swan said. "I enjoy following up and implementation of a plan and measuring to see how far we are
progressing."
Swan ran unsuccessfully in the August 2004 Republican primary for District 2 Cape Girardeau County commissioner.
Ward 6 covers areas of the city generally south of Kingshighway and west of Mount Auburn Road. The boundary goes east at Themis Street, then south at Edgewood Road.
Filing for city offices opened Oct. 20 and closes at 5 p.m. Nov. 17. In addition to Ward 6, voters will be electing a mayor and council members in Wards 1 and 2. Candidates must obtain signatures from 50 registered voters. Forms and details are available at city hall, 401 Independence St.
388-3642
Pertinent address:
401 Independence St., Cape Girardeau, Mo.
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*sigh*
LOL! How many read this headline just thinking...
"Ward 6 covers areas of the city generally south of Kingshighway and west of Mount Auburn Road. " - where the heck is that?
If you are heading North on Mt Auburn from the William intersection (BK, St Francis, Mall, etc) -- look to your left, all the way from the William intersection to the Kingshighway intersection along Mt Auburn. That is basically Ward 6 I believe.
Good Luck!!!
Meg I thought you had done it.
I wish I lived in Cape, or I wish one of my city council persons here in Kentucky wuz as purty as Miz Swan. I do hope that picture is a current one and not when she was 32.
.....and so it goes.
Heard she can cook a heck of a Mooseburger.
I have known Kathy for a longtime and she will be a great asset to the city council. Best of luck!
I think she will do a great job. Cape needs more businesspeople on the council to help the city attract and retain employers. I can't think of anyone better to fit this role than Kathy Swan.
We need her bad, I'm sure it would be good for "HER" business.....!!
LOL...
Wasn't she on the School Board?
I think sometime in the 1990s? 1995ish? There was some type of incident with the School Board. Can't remember the specifics. Something to do with favoritism? Please correct me if I am wrong.
what does one have to do to get on the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education?
Capecounty,
Governor Blunt reappointed Swan to serve a second term on the CBHE in February 2005.
Kathy was on the school board in 1994 that voted to allow some students to walk at graduation even though they had not yet fulfilled the requirements to graduate. They all had "promised" to do so later. It was asserted that one of the students was a "close friend" of Kathy's daughter and received special consideration. Many people were unhappy with that decision, myself included.
I think it was that same board that was shown to be very lax with school credit card spending during their attendance at state functions, etc., thanks to an audit by a concerned citizen.
I hope the voters of Cape have enough sense not to elect someone with such a lack of good judgement. C'mon Cape, you can do better. Someone else, please step up.
mythoughts2,
Thanks for that contribution. I agree with your assessment.
Ms. Swan will use this post to line her own pockets like she is trying to do at SEMO. Funny how our requests for new radios goes unfilled when JCS Tel Link loses the bids.
Use a public office for personal gain?
Wow! What a novel idea. That is just the kind of thing that could get out of hand.
Kathy is a very intelligent woman with a ton of experience in public policy. Her business has been successful aside from any political involvement. I think she would do a great job if elected. I wish that all people would take an active role in out government instead of those who just sit back and complain.
We would just be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Being in business does not necessarily make one a good candidate. Once again I ask: "Has there ever been a dissenting vote on this council"?
Bueller?
Bueller?
Bueller?
ANYone?, Anyone?
Thank you Gomer. For some reason I wasn't able to process that coordinate because I always considered Kingshighway a North-South running route. South of Kingshighway did not compute in my mind, but now I understand where it is.
Happy2BHere, there are a lot of intelligent people in Ward 6, many who also have experience in public policy and who have successful businesses. However, you can find people in MO prisons with those same qualifications.
ScaliaFan, think harder. Skip the intelligent, successful business people who are also policy wonks and try to find a person for the job who is WISE and tough-minded. Someone who won't let personal friendships influence their decisions. Kathy has already shown her shortcomings in that area while on the school board. Oh, and didn't she come in somewhere around last place in the primary election for commissioner.
C'mon, Ward 6. Think harder. Cape's council needs better.
Something to do with favoritism? Please correct me if I am wrong.
-- Posted by Egotistical_Bigot on Mon, Nov 2, 2009, at 8:50 PM
Back When we used radios I did a lot of business with JCS. I never had a bad experience.
That was the rumor Meg. The school board involved several others that thumbed their noses at the public. Kathy was still trying to do school business while many others were bickering with the public.
There wasn't an abuse of the cards but the fact they all had one. The public blew up and then a few of the members showed up at their meeting with the cards on a string around their neck. That got the public really upset. Kathy tried to avoid the scandal but there were so many involved all of them were drug into it.
She will do a good job. Kathy runs her business well and does want to help. The school thing is water under the bridge.
Mr. Wiffle, I believe Kathy Swan voted with the majority on the school board who thumbed their noses at the public. If so, she displayed poor judgement. If not, then she should have publicly denounced the vote. It's not "water under the bridge." It's a shameful chapter in the school's history.
If she had no guilt in the card scandal she should have publicly condemned and exposed those who were guilty. Failure to do so displayed lack of integrity.
We need people of integrity in public office.