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If you are a die-hard council follower and watch meetings on PACT-TV, you may noticed re-occuring faces in the crowd. Those faces on your TV screen are there out of peer strategy. They are the faces of city council candidates hoping to literally get their face out there.
Folks running for council all sit in the second and third row on the left side of the council chambers. This is the section of the crowd that appears in the background when someone gets up to speak at the podium. In the picture below you can see Dan Hartman (running for at-large), Kerrry Gauthier (4th district), Heath Hickok (4th district) and Gordon Grant (4th district) looking pretty for the viewers of PACT.
Follow up:
The other pic shows that not all get their face on there (only Hickok and half of Grant's face.)
I've spoken with several candidates about their seating arrangements. Hartman has even said if he isn't sitting in that specific area "his people" call his cell and ask him to move.
So does the strategy work? Not sure. But I do know Jeff Anderson attended nearly every meeting leading up to the election and always sat where he could be seen. He, of course, is now Councilor Anderson.
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