On the day that I write this (September 4, 2010), we are just six days away from nominations closing for the upcoming municipal election, and I've just reviewed the City's "Meet the Candidates" portion of their website to find that only two of the eleven incumbents who are running in this election have put together some information about themselves to share with the public.
Meanwhile, nearly all of the candidates who are running for a first term on Council have put something together for us to read about them. I wonder if it is also noteworthy that the two incumbents who have done this were first time councillors in 2006, so are running for only their second term...
Do the incumbents think that we know enough about them? Are they trying to stand on their record (to which - without recorded votes - we don't actually have access)? Do they not care if/what we know about them? Are they relying on name recognition alone? Have they simply not have time to put a bio together? (Though, I'm not really going for this last one, as I would argue that the majority of challengers are equally busy and most of us were able to put something together to share with voters.)
I just wonder why they aren't telling us about themselves/what they stand for...
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