Forum for mayor,council candidates at chamber mixer tonight

Tinseltown Studios is at 2200 E. Katella Ave., in the parking lot of Edison International Field of Anaheim. Of the 10 candidates for mayor and City Council, eight have run for office in past local elections. Mayor Tom Daly, Councilman Bob Zemel, former councilman Frank Feldhaus, Lucille Kring, Paul Bostwick and Gus Bode all have sought council seats. Daly was first elected to the council in 1988. He was re-elected in 1992 and was elected to the first four-year mayor's seat in 1994. He won his first election for mayor in conjunction with his reelection bid in 1992, when the mayor was elected for two years and had to be a sitting council member. Zemel was elected to the council in 1994 in his third try for a council seat. Feldhaus and Kring finished third and fourth, respectively, in 1996. First-time council candidate Todd Kaudy is an outgoing Anaheim City School District trustee. Leonard Lahtinen, another council contender, is a North Orange County Community College District trustee. The remaining council candidates, John Karczynski and Sean Leonard, are running for their first local elected office. With two council seats and the mayor's seat up for election, the council majority could change after Nov. With the possiblity of a new mayor, council candidates have been slow to declare any specific loyality to any of the mayoral candidates. j Only John Karczynsxi has declared his choice for mayor. "I want people to know that I support Tom Daly," he said. Other council candidates have decided to stay neutral, with the exception of Sean Leonard who said he "wouldn't support either of them." Kaudy, 28, has not decided who he'll support. A city school district trustee since 1994, Kaudy is a life-long Anaheim resident. He wants to run for council to "bring integrity and a sense of leadership back to the council." He believed last year's campaign finance investigations disgraced the city. "They took illegal contributions and then wasted the taxpayers money hiring a special prosecutor. Both factions should be reprimanded and not allowed to sit on the council," he said. Kaudy wants to pass ordinances regulating campaign spending. He also wants to attack the problem of the hotel children by fining hotel owners who operate unsafe or unclean hotels. He believes more should be done to recruit non-resort industries that provide higher-paying jobs. On the ballot: Anaheim voters will decide among three candidates for mayor and seven candidates for two open City Council seats. And, voters will be asked to approve a measure sponsored by the city's firefighters in their effort to force binding arbitration in contract negotiations with the city. In school board races, only the incumbents filed in the Savanna School Districts filed for the three seats on the ballot. Two incumbents and two challengers have filed for the three seats on the Magnolia School District board. Five candidates have filed for three open seats all three incumbents are not seeking re-election on the Anaheim City School District board and six candidates are running for three seats. Susain her bid to fill out the remainder of her term. The November general election will be Nov. 3. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sample ballots will be mailed Oct. 5. They will include the text of ballot measures, arguments for and against the measure and their rebuttals and candidate statements of those who chose to file them.