Kirk Wheeler has only lived in Asheville since January, he said, but has already absorbed the main message of City Council member and mayoral candidate Kim Roney.
Mayor Esther Manheimer’s administration is “a little non-disclosure, so things are decided before they get to active council hearings,” Wheeler, 73, said at a Sept. 28 candidate’s forum at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts. He was there to learn more about the candidates, he said, “but right now I’m leaning toward Roney.”
Manheimer’s opposite message about Roney — that her failures to communicate with colleagues and other leaders prevents effective collaboration — had likewise struck a chord with another forum attendee, Helen Hyatt…