Candidate declines LGBT questionnaire
by Matt | August 30th, 2007 |I received an email today from City Council candidate Kevin Green, who is running for an At-Large position:
Thank you for the email regarding the questionnaire you are sending to all the candidates for this year’s elections. I commend your advocacy efforts on behalf of the LGBT community but I am going to have to respectfully decline from this process. I am a first time candidate and am trying to learn the ropes as I go along, all the time working a full time job, it is not an easy task! I have decided to participate in as many different forums and questionnaires as possible but at the same time I needed to be careful to not spread myself too thin.
With that in mind I will be answering the Gary Palmer/Replacements PAC questionnaire, which I hope will answer some or all your concerns on the issues effecting the LGBT community. Again, I applaud your efforts and hope you understand my stance of trying to cover as many of the issues as possible.
Of course, I’m disappointed he has declined, but I do understand the ’spreading himself too thin’ position he’s in. At the same time, however, I know that my questionnaire would have provided the community a better way to see where he actually stands.
If the Replacements, Ltd. PAC does as it did the last time they put out a voter guide, they will release their results, in terms of their scoring and ranking of each candidate. My questionnaire would have been published in its entirety, allowing the community to actually read the words written down by each candidate.
I’ll contact Gary Palmer at Replacements to see if I can get a copy of Mr. Green’s returned questionnaire when he fills it out.
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3 Responses to “Candidate declines LGBT questionnaire”
I’m not buying it. You weren’t asking Green to attend an event for which he might have a conflict. You were asking him to respond to a questionnaire at his convenience (which he did without answering the questions).
A candidate who is spread too thin to respond to a voter’s questions during a campaign is spread too thin to serve on city council.
By DontSmokeMe on Aug 30, 2007
I get the sense Green is being “handled” — and poorly.
By DontSmokeMe on Aug 30, 2007
Thanks for your comments “DontSmokeMe.” How do you “get the sense” he is being “handled.” I’d like to probe your thoughts on that a bit more.
By Matt on Aug 31, 2007