Today on TLO, we're featuring Q&A's with the two electable candidates in the 2014 Oklahoma City Mayoral Election: Mayor Mick and Councilman Ed. We sent the same 19 questions about local issues and culture to each candidate. The questions are all over the map – some are serious, some are absurd, and one I forgot to ask, hence the 19 questions. It's also the closest thing this city will probably have to an actual debate.
I first met Mayor Cornett back in 2005. I had just started the website, HornetsCentral.com, with a co-worker who just happened to best friends with one of Mick's sons. One night, a couple of friends and I met up with that co-worker (and Mick's son) to catch a Hornets game at Buffalo Wild Wings on Expressway. My friends and I were getting hammered and knocking back some of those tall 60-oz towers of Bud Light when all of a sudden the mayor appeared at our table to start the second half. We were kind of star struck, and drunk, and suddenly felt the need to try and act sober. That's always a pain in the ass.
Anyway, fast forward 9 years and Mick is still the mayor and I'm still getting drunk around him. The only difference is that I no longer try to act sober and now ask him trivia questions. It's funny how life works.
The Mayor's Q&A is after the jump. Click here to read the one with Ed Shadid.
1. What will be your number one priority if reelected mayor of Oklahoma City?