MASON CITY – Mason City mayoral candidate Quinn Symonds attended Tuesday night’s City Council meeting after hearing City Council member Travis Hickey comparing services from City Hall to a McDonald’s restaurant.
“I heard on the TV that City Hall is now a McDonald’s,” Symonds said as he entered the Mason City room at the library where the Council meeting was being held.
“I need some context here,” he said.
Mr. Symonds stuck around to make a few remarks at the public forum before NIT caught up with him after the Council meeting, granting him an interview.
Touching on a range of issues, Symonds said Mayor Eric Bookmeyer’s campaign message that challengers to incumbents in this year’s City elections are “nonsense” is “ridiculous.”
Watch video interview:
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Quinn’s on a fixed income because he won’t get a job.
Dey took hour jaaabs!
Quinn Symonds is on a fixed income because he was laid off and is currently enrolled in college.
Sounds like Jodi Draper is the person to move Mason City forward. Keep up the good work Jodi, hope to see u in my neighborhood in the 2nd ward.
You are more than welcome to contact me anytime. I appreciate the confidence. I will be out again Saturday. I hope we get the chance to meet up and talk. Jodi Draper Candidate
Dave is absolutely right about Travis Hickey and his remarks about when he worked at K-Mart. I know this to be a fact since I was working at K-Mart at the time and I happened to be working the night the police came in and hauled him out in handcuffs. So, I guess he and Crookmeyer would be buddies.
Now this needs to get out to the mainstream media, so that the non NIT people can hear this….
No offense, but is Mr. Symonds the best that Mason City has to offer as a Mayoral Candidate? He may be a nice enough guy, but he does not strike me as a leader.
Whatever happened concerning Symonds’ housing situation? Did he have to move? Was the window fixed? The topic just disappeared and an update on what transpired would be interesting.
Thanks for this interview. It is good to watch a local candidate discussing issues and I have a much better impression of him now than I did after the landlord confrontation video.
The windows were not fixed, the landlord promised, even though he did so on video. The city inspection office refused to budge on the eviction. So I was forced out of the home my daughter and I lived in for maybe 3 months and because I stood up to him as I did I’m pretty much blacklisted by most landlords in town. The house remains unlived in to this day, and the house he owns next door has the same exact windows.
I heard Travis was arrested some years ago while working at Kmart for stealing, I wonder what truth there is in that info ? Then he is on the council with Crookmeyer !!!
@ Dave, why don’t you confirm the truth before making a statement on NI today like you did? I could come on here and say I heard Dave robbed a Bank in his past, does that serve some purpose? Check the court records and have proof before you make a satement like that. I am not saying your statement is not true but as you wrote it, it is just gossip.
I am so tired of Travis Hickey coming off like an arrogant ass. He is spending way too much time with Mayor Bookmeyer apparently. Travis has forgotten and abandoned his roots. His dad worked for the city for years before getting fired. Before Bookmeyer, Hickey couldn’t even spell Country Club….
As far as the McDonald’s comment– if he knew how right he really was, when he was trying to be sarcastic! City government has a menu of services for its citizens… Police and Fire protection, water, sewer and sanitation, growth and planning, engineering, infrastructure, arborists, streets and others.
Government has been and should always remain to serve the people. This is a democracy. Government is supposed to be of the people, for the people, by the people,– that is not radical thinking– that is the Constitution.
I am sick to death of the so called Dream Team trying to stick it to people who believe differently than them. It is not socialism to understand basic governmental processes of democracy.
Hitler, Mussolini, Idi Amin, and other Autocrats believed that the people did not matter.. our so called Mayor and his Dream Team are just that.
I finally see that Alex Kuhn finally voted his conscience. Hope to see more individual decision making by him. I think he has promise.
Well, let’s keep watching…. and don’t forget to Vote…no changes will be made if we just blog and bitch……
@LVS When are you home? I live about 6 blocks from The Drapers and she has been all over town! I see her out almost every evening talking and knocking on doors. I have seen her out on Saturdays also. I even went to her home and she let me in talked and introduced to me to her sons. Nice family. She is all about listening and making solid decisions, while respecting each person in the room. I liked her before I actually spoke to her, after speaking to her I really like her. Honest. Respectful and Caring. Not a politician at all, a person who has great leadership abilities.
@North End-We are home all of the time in the most all day and evenings and weekends and have never seen her here. We are on the porch almost every night. We are only about a block away. I am leaning towards voting for her. Ah hell, I would vote for anyone who runs against Hickey. I would like to hear what she has to say.
@LVS, She must have missed you, she has been at my house. It wouldn’t hurt for you to reach out to her to talk. We had a two minute conversation on the doorstep and I am convinced to vote for her.
@John-We talked to her this evening. She is a very nice young lady that I think will do just fine by us. She has our vote.
@ John and LVS~
Thanks for your votes! Please know I mean I want to have a 4 year conversation. You can call me anytime. I want to always know what the community is saying in Ward 2, what they feel we need. I appreciate your support! Jodi Draper Ward 2 Candidate
Interesting interview. It is obvious to me that Hickey has no regard whatsoever for working people. He is 100% pro management establishment and to hell with the common taxpayer. As far as Mr. Quinn, I believe he means well, but will have a difficult time beating the mayors machine. We need someone who is well respected with a established following to step up and run against the mayor. Jodi Draper would be well served to start getting her message out as well. I think she has an excellent chance of defeating Hickey but she needs to put in a little work. We live pretty close to her and have never seen her up here.
LVS
I am sorry that I have not been able to connect with you. I would love to do that. My Contact number is 641-494-6092. I will be out tonight knocking on doors was planning on being in a different area of Ward 2. But,I will look for the house with a Porch by our neighborhood or you can call and let me know a good time to stop over. I hope to connect with you this evening!
Jodi Draper Ward 2 Candidate
Thank you Jodi. I will give you a call. No hostility here as I am probably going to vote for you anyway.
@LVS I appreciate the openness of wanting to have a conversation! I am getting of the computer and getting outside right now! I hope I get the chance to talk with you.
Oh how I wish I lived in Ward 2 so that I could vote for you. I spend enough time there, right in your neighborhood, gardening. By the way thanks again for sharing the summer squash seeds, I had a great crop. You will make a fantastic representative of the people – Best Wishes!
Thank you! I really appreciated the gardening tips. My daughters and I had a wonderful time this summer “playing” in the garden.
Jodi Draper Ward 2
Heard of a Lunch break? Her neighbors directly across the street can verify she was at home at 11:20 p.m. Geez get a life!
sorry 11 am
@North End-They will do anything to try to discredit the competition.
Please come to the Forest Park area. We would love to talk with you.
@ mojo
I was in that area on Saturday and spoke with many neighbors. They have requested a neighborhood meeting. I left my name and number and said I would do this anytime. My contact information is 641-494-6092. I will be back there again soon as a few were out of town due to holiday week end. I hope to meet with all of you. I will adjust my schedule to any time you all would like to meet.
Thanks
Jodi Draper Ward 2 Candidate
@ anonymous
Thank you for being fiscally responsible for the community in asking if I was on county time while blogging. I appreciate those questions. I was working from CG today instead of one of the other 20 counties in the region and left the office at 11:10 am (I am not paid for lunch breaks) came home to check the water for our Dog as he is outside in the daytime to make sure he had cool water to get through the afternoon and that our side garage door was open so he could get out of the sun if he wanted. Because of my occupation and the time of day the post was posted that is a fair question. I have registered my name with NIT. The editor and or publisher of NIT can verify the IP address of these blogs and prove they were from my home computer and they were from me. Thank you for your question. Jodi Draper Ward 2 Candidate
Is that the best u got????….I love Jodi’s answer. Very positive and not reactionary. Just the facts..I am liking this lady.
@Jodi Draper-that was an excellent answer you gave anonymous. I need to learn how to do that instead of losing my temper.