Let’s see…
You have the candidate links I have placed up top in the directory of links on the right side of this page.
You have the Ten Questions, which I’ve asked of each candidate running for federal office in this area. Soon a similar list will be sent to those running locally for state legislative posts.
Well, today I solicited a number of local political leaders from all of the state parties I could get contact info for in Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, and Worcester counties here in Maryland and Sussex County in Delaware. This included Republicans, Democrats, Greens, and Libertarians for both states, plus a couple other parties in Delaware. There’s also a number of Maryland statewide candidates I did this for yesterday, although that was a bit more difficult. I’d just like to be placed on a mailing list, folks, I’m not necessarily wanting to volunteer for you.
The idea is to put together a political calendar each week, where if there’s a candidate who’s speaking out on the issues, it’s an opportunity for all of you readers to get to see them in person and judge their qualifications for yourselves.
Obviously if you’re a regular monoblogue reader, you’ll know that I’m in the local Republican club. But as I wrote to these folks of other political stripes, just because I am the person who writes the views on monoblogue, I’m still fair enough to allow them to make the news. I’d be interested in getting to see some of the other people who are making the effort to avail themselves for public service – while I may disagree with their views diametrically, I do believe in free political speech.
So I’m leaving it up to those who are the movers and shakers in each area county whether they wish to participate (assuming of course I had their proper contact info.) But come about this time next Sunday (if I’m through with some personal business) I’ll debut the first weekly political calendar for the time period of June 12-20. This will continue up until Election Day of 2006.
If next week comes and I have no responses, then it becomes incumbent upon the loyal readers of monoblogue to ask what these politicians and parties have to hide?
