Candidate follies
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- October
- 8
Tomorrow, we start candidate endorsement hearings. It’s always a pretty big undertaking, but this year, it’s busy, busy, busy. We’re also working on getting various information from candidates e-mailed in. News reporters are making sure the election database is complete.
Here’s some funny conversations I’ve had with candidates:
One asked if I had called his challenger. I said no, but I was about to look up his number and contact him. He said, “Oh, I think I have it. Hold on.” Then gave me the number of the guy who is trying to unseat him. Very nice.
Others have asked if they would sit in the same room with their challengers. Yes. It’s not a debate, with and Editorial Board member moderating the discussion, but yes, all in one room at one time. Some didn’t like this. Oh, well.
And, of course, one sent in an e-mail asking if he could fax his responses to the four questions we are asking candidates for their profiles. We state in the instructions, and during all conversations, that these have to be e-mailed in. It just puzzled me that he would want to fax something that he got from a web site, then would print out, and send an e-mail to find out how to fax, when he could just send the responses in that e-mail. Color me puzzled.
It’s gonna be a long election season.
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on Monday, October 8th, 2007 at 5:10 pm by Nancy Cutler.
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