A hat tip to the Herald-Sun for offering one of the most important and useful services of a local paper: interviews with each of the candidates for local office. Over the past two days, the H-S has run profiles of the ten candidates for the Board of County Commission; the paper completed these interviews with each of the office-seekers back in March. (An earlier series focused on the DA candidates.)
For archival purposes, given the challenges in searching the H-S web site for stories that are more than a day old, here are links to all ten profiles:
As the race nears its finish, we'll run a story here on BCR with endorsement (PAC and media) and candidate bios to track this info all in one place.
One eyebrow-raising item in the stories is Michael Page's comment today on attempted-comeback candidate Joe Bowser:
[Page] also said he would not be happy to serve with Joe Bowser, who left the board some months after losing a Democratic primary in 2004, the year Page was elected.
"We butted heads at the beginning, and ... I'm not willing to go through four more years like this," Page said.
An intriguing public position for a candidate (Page) who, like Bowser, has earned the endorsement of the Durham Committee. Though, of course, the Committee's endorsements (like the Friends and PA before them) came out the weekend before the series ran.
Well-timed and well-played, sir.
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