Yes, not having a lot of information is true for a lot of local candidates.
I don’t see how that’s relevant here.
He told authorities in late March (!) that he had dumped his wife’s body. He made the news. A Google search wouldn’t have come up empty. The town has a population of ~16000. That’s sizable by small town standards but still within the range where the gossip would have gotten everywhere the local news had not.
People blindly/stupidly voted because people are kind of dumb and don’t really think or put 2 and 2 together. I’m also sure several of these voters knew and didn’t really care. It’s not the biggest town.
I’m going to be voting in the Democratic primary this week, and even though I can find info on the candidates, a lot of it isn’t substantial……frankly, they are all saying the same things and they all sound alike.
I know who I’m voting for in the Senate primary. It’s not a competitive race, there is one clear front-runner, who I support.
City Council……. One of the candidates, not the incumbent, has held the office before and helped my neighborhood out with some road paving issues. I’ll vote to get him back.
Clerk of Superior Court… I had no idea so I reached out to the paralegal at my lawyers office, because she deals with those people all the the time. They are not happy with the current clerk and are endorsing one of her opponents, I was surprised at the detail of her reply. I’ll go with their recommendation.
School Board —- I’m still working on that, it annoys me because there are four candidates and I get to vote for three - so I have to pick one random person to vote against. One of the four took the trouble to post a short bio on the county elections webpage, so I’ll vote for her. The other three didn’t, so……eeny meany minny mo, I guess.
There was one candidate last election that I couldn’t find a lot on. I think he posted on Facebook, so I asked him at least one specific question. He was coy, and would not answer my questions in a public forum. He suggested we meet for coffee.
Suggesting a coffee was nice of him, I suppose… unless he was inviting everybody to have a cuppa joe with him in a ‘town meeting’ setting. Suggesting a one-on-one is one thing. Suggesting a one-on-one that is actually one-on-many is sleazy.
In any case, since he would not answer my questions, I didn’t even consider voting for him.
He only needed one vote though, which presumably he could have made himself since he is not yet a convicted felon (I think).
There were only 3 candidates, including him, and 3 open positions. It’s possible some of the votes he got were from people just voting in a line without paying attention to who it was, or people who thought they HAD to vote for 3 people even if they, personally, didn’t want him in office.
Going to be interesting in the general election, I guess.
Just as a side note: reading the various candidate statements in the Voter’s Guide can be very entertaining (and cause you to drink heavily!) From California:
Armando “Mando” Perez-Serrato | DEMOCRATIC California Proclamation—My beloved Californians, I empathize without beguilement nor prejudice how solemn my words must tender to assuage your unfeigned hardship & bereavement, cloaked in the uncertainty of loss. Our prayers & condolences illuminate many a kindred spirit with honorable presence that your noble sacrifce perpetuates our united comfort of hope. I pray our Heavenly Father will bring light to the plight of the world, ease your daily crucifxion & complete economic resurrection for our American Family—This Is The Way. Donate today on Apple Cash, Venmo, GooglePay, CashApp to 714-XXX-XXXX or mail check/money order to address below, payable to: Armando Perez. Thank you to my parents Consuelo & Melchor Perez for a lifetime of hard work and dedication to provide an opportunity to succeed.
And my personal favorite:
Mariana B. Dawson | NO PARTY PREFERENCE F all politicians.
While it’s not so helpful down at local level, I do recommend Ballotpedia for aggregating what is known about candidates in the higher-up races. I’ve also found them extremely useful in unpicking local and state referenda, including setting out who is behind/against them.
It looks to me that the State of Colorado is doing more to combat the election shenanigans than the federal government.
Then again, given the way elections are handled state-by-state rather than centrally run, that’s probably the only way we can do it. Unless that changes.
Is this the right place to take notice of this numb nuts? “Baked Alaska” was set to plea guilty as part of a plea agreement. He appeared confused about that works, however
