Restaurateur Luke Marion is one of seven candidates running for four at-large city council seats in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He may have to convince voters to look beyond his own past. As a teenager, he faced charges of possession and distribution of child pornography between and in I grew up here, all my friends were from here, my family is from here, my family is still here.
So that's really the backstory of it. I've been invested in this community since I was born, and I doubled down in when we bought the business, and here I am, still trying to move up and not only continue myself, but make the community a better place.
So, I've been meeting with people since November, just different community leaders, different committee organizations, smart people, people who know more than I do, trying to get a sense of what the city needs. Having lived here my whole life, 34 years now, I can see where things are going, I can see things happening, I can see what people need, I think, and I can talk to people about what they need.
And I can talk to other people about what they think the community needs. So, I tabled it for personal reasons, kind of in the winter. And certain things came to light, and I felt this moral obligation to run to make sure that the city and the budget are appropriated as equitably as possible for everybody in town. That's very important to me, and that's really why I'm here. So, let's get into that, these moral obligations, these things that pushed you to come forward.
What are they? And when you talk about prioritizing these things that Pittsfield needs, what are some of those big topics? Number one for me is housing. You know, a home is where a job sleeps at night. Being pro-housing is being pro-business.
