Mr. Editor: Instead of you asking questions that are of your interest from the candidates for public office during your upcoming candidate interviews, why not save yourself some time and ask your readers to submit a question or two, from which you choose the most frequent and demanding?
An example: Candidate, what does the oath of office mean to you? Of the incumbents: “When did you lose contact with your saying the oath of office and your activities in violation of it?
Pre-publish the questions for all candidates, then ask the questions and record the answers. Publish the answers, limited to, say, 200 words for each question. If a candidate refuses to answer a question, publish that, too.
Of course, questions about term limits are required as a necessary answer from all candidates for all elected offices.
Just think, sir, that you won’t be embarrassed by your making recommendations for office based on “experience” when the office holder is a do-nothing, and you can avoid further criticism when you have to justify your recommendations after the candidate, when elected, falls flat on his/her face in the conduct of the office they are elected to.
Oh, if someone submits “sealed records,” ask why that is. You can then say that the candidate has something to hide from his/her past that might significantly affect the voter’s choice. Just think where the U.S. would be if the 50 secretaries of state had asked that question two years ago.
Richard Jauch
Camano Island
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