Not Ready for Prime Time?
Election season is continuing to ramp up and that means we should start to hear more from the candidates. Problem is, we probably won’t. Here’s what we’ll hear from them. 100% voters will get a mailer, a phone call, and a visit. They matter, people that don’t vote, don’t matter. That might bother some of you, if it does, get over it. If you don’t vote, why would they waste time talking to you? If you don’t care enough to vote, you have no power over them so it should shock you when you are ignored. Don’t like it? Then vote dummy. Regular media won’t spend too much time, if any, covering them unless they screw up and say or do something wrong. But for those of us that actually do cover the candidates, I have a message for you. For far too long this town has had its share of clowns elected as leaders and the reason it happens is because we don’t normally know much about the leaders before they are elected. We are too scared or shy about asking the tough question. We don’t want to be unpo...