My wife and I moved down here last year from Acworth, Georgia and really don’t know much about these candidates. I have spent the past few days digging around, and I must say it’s never been this hard for me to find so little information. It would be nice if these people running for office would publish their policy positions (as a minimum) on a campaign website…shouldn’t we all find this concerning?

Before you say, “well just go to the campaign website,” most don’t have one. LuTimothy May only has a Facebook page listing a bunch of endorsements, for example; however, I need to know ppolicy positions, see a candidate actually listens to constituents (or does some kind of direct outreach), and actually lives here (no carpetbaggers, and name recognition alone isn’t good enough). I emailed the District 3 website directly to try and get around bugging candidates and never heard back, so that was a dead end too.

I’ve made out my ballot as best I can, but frankly its pathetic that constituents have to really hunt to make an informed decision. Good on NorthEscambia.com though– y’all did better than PNJ. They have a similar list but its behind a paywall, and this information needs to be free and easily accessible for the public. Plus, I appreciate having focus directly on the area I live in rather than a bunch of native advertising and push pieces shoved in my face.