OK Chandler voters, the Amazing Jake has been busy running down information on the upcoming city council election (March 14th). If you aren’t interested in local politics, this will be a long post, so skip down to something else. I suggest the Feb 21st post on the President threatening to veto a congressional bill limiting the sale of US ports to a UAE company.
In any case, let’s start with the background.
Click here for campaign basics, from the City of Chandler website.
Click here for campaign finance reports. Dry reading, but informative.
Click here for background on the southeast Chandler Wal-Mart fight, and here and here for responses from the candidates to a questionnaire sent to them by Riggs Residents for Retail Diversity, the local residents’ advocacy group. More questionnaire responses will be posted as the election approaches.
From the Arizona Republic, background information on each candidate.
Followup article in the Chandler edition of the Republic.
Finally, three candidates responded to a questionnaire from the Center for Arizona Policy on issues more related to social issues than local city policy.
All caught up? Well then here are my impressions for City Council. For each candidate, I will list their campaign cash on hand, as of January 31st (according to their filings on the City of Chandler website – link is above). I’ll also list campaign contributors of interest. I’m not peddling scandal here – just taking note of those who contribute whom I recognize for one reason or another, or political action committees that I find interesting. I’ll also list prominent endorsements, positions on issues, and any other notable items.
Here we go… (more…)
