CITY COUNTY OBSERVER 2016 ELECTION COVERAGE BEGINS

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CITY COUNTY OBSERVER 2016 ELECTION COVERAGE BEGINS

The filing deadline for candidates for Vanderburgh County offices and the Indiana Legislature is today at noon. The City-County Observer is, as always, going to bring our readers the information they need about the candidates of both parties to make the best decisions about who to support in the May primary and the November general elections.

We do believe it is time to take a fresh, 21st century approach to informing our readers about the candidates. We will not distribute a questionnaire, but will extend a personal invitation to each office seeker to tell us why our readers should vote for them. There has been a trend among candidates to simply ignore questionnaires that many organizations and news outlets distribute, because they are often perceived as being “slanted” or having “gotcha” questions. By giving them a chance to tell us what their special qualifications for the office they seek are, why they are seeking office, or whatever else they want our readers to know, we hope to get full participation from the candidates.

We are looking forward to the election season and we hope that all of our readers will look to us for the information they need to make sound choices.

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  1. I think one of the important distinctions the City County Observer can/should demand for prospective Democratic candidates in Vanderburgh County is:
    1. Why are you running as a Democrat instead of a Republican?
    2. How is being a Democrat any different than being a Republican in this race?
    3. How, as a Democrat, are you any different – OTHER THAN qualifications for the office – than your Republican opponent? Is there any difference between you because of you are a Democrat? What is it?

      • The CCO.
        The CCO can do this – help repair the damage of the self-inflicted “soul-lost, have no integrity” Democratic Party in Evansville. (There is no distinction between Evansville Democrats and Evansville Republicans.)

        The City County Observer can do it one of two ways. One is more effective than the other.
        1. Sell ads by discussing this subject in a thin manner.
        or
        2. Show journalistic leadership, and community leadership on this issue, and because it does, sell ads.

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