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City Newspaper Endorses Powell
City Newspaper published its endorsements on August 26.
First Candidate Forum of the Season
This August 27 D&C article covers a candidate forum co-sponsored by FR=EE and the League of Women Voters.
Campaign Finance – It shouldn’t be an issue…
On August 17, 2015, the Democrat and Chronicle launched its coverage of the School Board campaign season with this article: School board election spending muddled .
It’s a shame that campaign financing should be the issue, and not the candidate’s platform. NY State Board of Elections changed the rules regarding School Board campaigns, and Willa says that she genuinely believes that all candidates will make every effort to abide by disclosure regulations. “The size of the purse is not what matters,” she was quoted as saying.
Please use the Contact Us option on this page to tell us whether you would like to us to post Willa’s disclosure forms on this page. Also tell us if you would like us to submit a Freedom of Information request on other candidate’s disclosure and provide their information as well.
Excuse Our Mess – We are under (Re)Construction
Dear Inquiring Voter,
We are resurrecting our website from 4-years ago. That means that there are broken links among the old posts, and articles from a campaign long since decided.
There is valuable information in these old posts, and we don’t want to simply delete them if they articulate Willa’s position on issues that remain current.
In the meantime, please view this Candidate Free Airtime Video, from our successful 2011 campaign, or read a transcript of same in the “Our Core Message” link in the top right corner of the home page.
To Engage or Not To Engage? (2011)
When the D&C Editorial declined to endorse Willa in the Primary Election, our campaign strategy was to use the response opportunity to project our campaign message to the D&C audience.
Not surprisingly, the D&C declined to endorse Willa in the General Election as well. Stay on message, or respond to the criticism? Our answer was: do both. Show how the D&C Editorial Board is looking for shallow, (“showy”, Willa calls it) accomplishments instead of penetrating investigation, superficial changes instead of structural changes.
Compare the D&Cs complaint, “Powell’s record of accomplishments is thin given her tenure” to City Newspaper’s endorsement: “Evans, Powell, and Campos are smart and committed, and they understand the role of an elected official.”
Here is Willa’s 200 word response to be published in Saturday’s paper
