Cedar Rapids City Council Campaign Quiz

Have you been following the Cedar Rapids City Council campaign? Let's find out. Here's a quiz:

1. Several hopefuls say that the city can cut property taxes and still have enough bucks to ...

A. Do more road and storm sewer work.

B. Construct flood protection on both sides of the river.

C. Increase spending on public safety.

D. Invent a magic machine that turns sewage sludge into solid gold.

E. Grant every single citizen three wishes.

2. What have candidates said about Cedar Rapids' downtown?

A. Too much money is being spent on big projects.

B. The city's core is too economically important to ignore.

C. It should be sold to the Navy for live-fire exercises.

D. It should be moved to the parking lot at Westdale Mall.

E. It's a swirling, cash-sucking vortex of pure evil.

3. Which two are real campaign themes?

A. Back to basics.

B. Why Scott, why now?

D. Progress, shmogress.

E. Oh, I'll tell you what you can do with your amphitheater.

4. Which catchy slogan for beefed-up policing is real?

A. Pinpoint Policing.

B. Pecan Pie Policing.

C. Pleasant Peppy Policing.

D. Every breath you take, every move you make policing.

5. According to candidates, what's included in the city's preferred flood protection plan?

A. Levees, flood walls and removable flood walls.

B. Secret urban renewal projects.

C. Bike trails paved with platinum.

D. A massive marble statue of the mayor called “The Corbett Colossus.”

E. Whatever pops into their head.

6. Some candidates don't like the current City Council policy of addressing public comments at meetings by saying ...

A.

B.

C.

7. What would candidates cut out of the city's general fund budget to make room for priorities?

A. Wasteful things.

B. Things people don't like.

C. Frills, like animal control.

D. Everything but public safety, and streets, oh, and leaf pickup, and snow removal, and ...

8. The new library has come under fire, but who will use the facility?

A. Downtown elites who need fancy books about fancy stuff, like being fancy.

B. Anyone who wants to.

C. Silly backward people who don't know Kindles were invented.

D. Lame kids who like stupid book-learning.

9. Will the election draw high turnout?

A. Good one.