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LONGVIEW – Looking to win the District 3 seat on the Longview City Council, two out of five candidates spoke on issues impacting Longview the most at a forum on Wednesday. According to our news partner KETK, District 3, which covers the south-eastern part of the city from Interstate 20 to north of U.S. Highway 80, has been under councilman Ray Wade since 2018. The seat opened up when Wade campaigned and lost the race to be a Gregg County commissioner during the March primary election.<\/p>\n
Five candidates are vying for the seat to represent the district. <\/p>\n
\u201c[It\u2019s] the oldest and most culturally enhanced part of our city,\u201d candidate Marlena Cooper said.<\/p>\n
Cooper, along with G. Floyd, were the two candidates present at Wednesday night\u2019s forum, organized by the Longview Chamber of Commerce and the Longview News Journal.
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\u201cWherever I go, whatever I do, I raise the standard,\u201d candidate G. Floyd said.<\/p>\n
Cooper is pushing to have more affordable housing options for people living in the area and families hoping to move to the district.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a large transient population on our side of town,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cWe are the home to the SLIP [South Longview Incentive Program] program. We need to be doing more things with that and I do believe that is a problem that we can work on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Floyd would like to address road conditions and attract more businesses to the district to boost the local economy. <\/p>\n
\u201cI want to bring some of those businesses back through work with the city, the chamber, LEDCO [Longview Economic Development Corporation] and all of the partnerships that we can develop private and public partnerships to help us be able to do that,\u201d Floyd said.<\/p>\n
Cooper and Floyd agree that the stray dog problem has gotten out of control on their streets.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got an animal control issue on our side that we really need to address better,\u201d Cooper said.<\/p>\n
The other three candidates who were not able to attend the forum are Darrin \u201cRudy\u201d Rudolph, Brandon Smith and Brenda Woolridge. Early voting begins on April 20 and ends on April 28, with the election day being May 2. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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