{"id":265,"date":"2007-01-10T18:50:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T18:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2007\/01\/10\/cheri-bustos-seeks-east-moline-city-council-seat\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T11:34:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T16:34:21","slug":"cheri-bustos-seeks-east-moline-city-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/cheri-bustos-seeks-east-moline-city-council-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheri Bustos Seeks East Moline City Council Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bustos\"<\/a>After a newsworthy year for the East Moline City Council, a new face is looking for a place as the 4th Ward Alderman.\u00a0 Cheri Bustos has announced her candidacy to the position but must first be elected in the Democratic Primary election that takes place on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Cheri Bustos displayed her hard work ethic and commitment when she was the first in line at the East Moline City Clerk\u2019s office as she arrived at 5:45 a.m. the day candidates could file for the primary elections.\u00a0 Before that, she managed to collect 14 times the amount of the required three signatures, while at the same time talking to the people of East Moline and finding out what issues matter to them the most. She says that the people expressed concern about the city\u2019s image.\u201cThat we are not viewed necessarily as a place where new businesses want to locate.\u00a0 Or not necessarily viewed as a city on the upswing.\u00a0 Were not necessarily viewed as having a downtown that is really alive,\u201d Bustos said.She wants to position the city as a place where businesses want to go and people want to live, \u201cand a lot of that is about positioning us in a positive light.\u201dThe East Moline City Council members will have already voted on the proposed Triumph pork plant issue that divided many people in the community by the time newly elected officials take office after the April elections.\u00a0 If the plant goes through and Bustos is elected, she says that at that point as an alderman she will have to \u201cmake sure that Triumph is a good corporate citizen, that they are a good neighbor, that they are taking good care of our environment, that they are giving back, that they are good to their employees.\u00a0 That\u2019s the kind of stuff that if I\u2019m elected I\u2019m going to have to look out for.\u201dShe has created a four-point mission for the city that includes creating a neighborhood advisory board, calls for partnerships in school, industry, business and nonprofits, rewarding innovation in business and an annual spring cleanup.Bustos believes that \u201ca strong city has strong schools\u201d and wants to have kids coming out of United Township High School going to college and getting a good education so that they may return to East Moline and \u201cdo great things.\u201d\u201cTruancy is not just a school problem, if you got kids skipping school they are running around your city. Can we open up the school for activities going on at night? Can we work together on youth programs?\u201d Bustos proposes.She has posted all the details of her mission on her website: www.CitizensForBustos.com where she has a \u201cQuestion of the Week\u201d to get feedback from the diverse community of East Moline.\u201cI think that part of our strength in East Moline is that we are a diverse population, I see that as an absolute positive,\u201d Bustos said, \u201cI like the fact that in our downtown we have a lot of ethnic restaurants and businesses, I see that as positive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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