1) Currently, a Cayuga County legislator is permitted to serve 12 years in office, and there are three incumbents (Steve Netti, Ray Lockwood and Sam DeRosa) who will not be able to serve out their entire four-year term if elected. How many years should a legislator be permitted to serve and why?

Cuddeback: “Candidates for the Legislature should be able to serve as many years as the public sees fit.”

Lennox: “If you aren't good for the first term, one-da-loo; the second term, two-da-loo.”

2) The county treasurer under-billed 31 municipalities $655,000 in insurance premiums. Who should pay for his mistake?

Cuddeback: “Why should the taxpayers of the towns absorb it when the county really already has? We have over $1 million in that fund balance now.”

Lennox: “It doesn't matter. We (taxpayers) are going to take it on the chin either way.”

3) Is this county in need of a professional manager, and if so, what do you intend to do, if elected, to reform county government?

Cuddeback: “The county needs professional guidance, but I don't think that a county manager is the perfect fit. I don't think one person is going to make that much of a difference because that person is going to go back to the people we rely on right now for numbers and opinions. Let's utilize the resources we have.”

Lennox: “The manager should have power. There's nobody up there now capable of running (a $93 million budget).

In order to manage and manage correctly, you have to have the say. After 16 or 18 months of deliberation, it should have been tabled. It could have been changed with a couple strikes of the pen.”

4) Should the county pursue a land claim settlement with the tribes, or begin foreclosure proceedings if taxes are not paid on time?

Cuddeback: The county should pursue the same course of action that it would with any other citizen.

Lennox: “If they did wind up with a sovereign nation, they should still pay taxes. This is one nation under God, not four or five.”