Election Candidate Cameos
Minda Rae Amiran
The Candidate Forum team will try an innovative approach to the primary elections for local offices this August. It will interview the candidates individually, by Zoom, asking the same key questions of each contender for a given office. The interviews will be posted on our website, so that the public can learn about a candidate of interest without committing to watching an entire hour or so of a traditional forum.
The team’s March 18 meeting also approved a plan for publicity drawn up by Carolyn Stewart. The team will inform all local media about the availability of the candidate interviews.
Although the number of local primary candidates cannot yet be known, the interviews will include contenders for our Representative to Congress, one State Senator, and four State Representatives. The races for four Superior Court Judges and other offices will not likely have primaries but the State LWV handles any primaries for State-wide office.
—Minda Rae