2007 Election and Voter Guide
UAPA members are very clear that they want UAPA to find and disseminate information about the upcoming election. So UAPA is assembling this voter's guide.
As one of our members so aptly put it in a recent survey return:
"I find it very difficult to learn anything useful about the candidates thru either their literature or the Suburban News type interviews. It is all so superficial: "I want to continue the excellence of UA" , what does that mean? I want to really know if they are
- forward thinking or exclusionary;
- will they promote censorship at the library;
- if they have a vision for UA, what does it look like;
- do they care about diversity;
- does their "pro-business" stance mean WalMart or the little shop on the corner,
- do they have knee jerk reactions to issues like sex-offender residence?"
There is indeed a lack of useful City Council candidate information provided by our local press. It is perhaps telling that the UAPA Executive Committee relies a good deal on informal information channels for the real scoop of what's happening on Council and in our community. Local newspapers are either unable or unwilling to do the much-needed shoe-leather investigative reporting.
Because this election is so important for UA, we will be using this page as a portal and our newsletter to disseminate election information. Send us your comments, feedback and any information you think is relevant.
The remarks in this Voter Guide are our good faith effort to inform UAPA supporters to what degree we think UA City Council candidates adhere to those progressive issues/principles that we believe UA should guided by. There is an allusive nature to the some of political information we seek, so we did our best to talk to many people who know the candidates as well as research whatever public records are available.