As a candidate I’m finding out you want to take advantage of every opportunity to shine, prove that you understand the issues, and are prepared to make the decisions that are best for the community. The variables you control in doing this are your message, how often you get in front of the public with events/walking door to door/social media, your visibility in signage/ads/website, and how much money you earn to do all that.

What you don’t want is for something to happen outside of your control that makes your opposition look good. You want everyone to be playing on a level playing field in the public eye.

One of the things that’s very disappointing is not getting a chance to share your message in a media source with broad distribution, like a newspaper. Even more discouraging is sensing a bias in that media source. Whether it is intended or not your opposition can get a lot of mileage out of a supportive article produced by a news source that is supposed to be neutral in reporting and has that reputation in the community.

That just happened – 2x now. So what happened? Well, first of all I just decided that I’m not taking that job as a newspaper delivery boy for the Times, no matter how much my campaign costs…

Stay tuned, more to come today…