I
applaud the nonpartisan Center for Arizona Policy
for once again providing its handy Voter’s Guide
to the 2006 Primary Election. It allows me to
compare my position on important issues with those
of the candidates. That is to say, the candidates
who deem it worthy to respond to CAP’s survey.
In fact, that alone helps make the guide useful
for me.
If
a candidate cannot take the time to reply to a
nonpartisan query, is too ambivalent in their
views and by now has not figured out where they
stand, or is just plain unwilling to come out
with what they really believe and how they’ll
vote–well, that’s a candidate I’m dismissing.
These
volatile days, we need clarity of ideas and strength
of convictions, whatever they may be. Be strong
for something.
Shame
on those who desire the trappings of elected office
but at this late date won’t show their hand.
Warren
Goodrich, Scottsdale
