Voters.Indd Clallam
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
2 FOR THE ELECTION O F NOVEMBER 4, 2008 VOTE ! 2008 VOTER GUIDE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS S T A T E O F W A S H I N G T O N Introduction: Election ends Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. THIS SPECIAL SECTION tionnaires were limited to 75 ballot in the official return enve- house. of the Peninsula Daily News, also words per question and were lope, and don’t forget to sign the ■ Nov. 3: Last day for write-in available at no charge at the edited for length, grammar and envelope. candidates to file a Declaration county courthouse, libraries and spelling. Fill in the square next to your of Candidacy for the Nov. 4 elec- other public places across Clal- Races in which there is only choice. And make no identifying tion. lam County, provides voters with one candidate are not profiled in marks on your ballot. ■ Nov. 25: Deadline for information about the Nov. 4 this section. Neither are write-in Putting more than one ballot County Canvassing Board to cer- general election. candidates. in a return envelope, signifying tify the general election returns. It profiles the candidates for In Clallam County, all voting your choice with an X or check ■ Nov. 26: Last day for county countywide and local races in is done by mail. There is no Elec- mark (✔) instead of completely to mail abstract of general elec- which there are more than two tion Day precinct polling. inking in the square, or placing tion returns to state. candidates, and also discusses Mail-in ballots were sent to an identifying mark on a ballot ■ Dec. 4: Final day for secre- local measures on the ballot. registered voters in the appropri- will invalidate the ballot or bal- tary of state to certify general For the first time, the Voter ate jurisdictions by Aug. 1. lots involved. election returns from across the Guide includes profiles and ques- They must be postmarked no state. tions and answers by the cam- later than Nov. 4 or dropped off Election calendar paigns of the two major presi- by no later than 8 p.m. Nov. 4 at Got questions? dential candidates and the two any of the following locations: Here are some significant gubernatorial candidates. ■ Clallam County Courthouse, dates relating to the general Questions about Clallam The primary election for all 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles. election: County elections can be posed to the County Auditor’s Office elections other than president A drive-up drop box is provided. ■ Oct. 20: Voter registration elections division at 360-417- was held Aug. 19. ■ Sequim Motor Vehicle deadline for people not currently The presidential primary elec- 2217 Mondays through Fridays. Licensing Office, 1001 E. Wash- registered to vote in Washington. tion for Washington state was Voter registration information ington St., Sequim. Registration must be done in held Feb. 19. ■ Forks District Court, 500 E. is available at 360-417-2221. Compilation of information, person at the Auditor’s Office at Statewide elections information Division St., Forks. An outdoor the county courthouse. including the question-and-an- drop box is provided. — including a link to the state’s swer segments, was coordinated ■ Nov. 3: Last day to apply for online voters guide — is avail- an absentee ballot for the Nov. 4 by PDN Commentary Page Edi- Important information able from the Secretary of State’s tor Paul Gottlieb. general election at the County Office in Olympia on the Web Candidates’ answers to ques- Do not place more than one Auditor’s Office in the court- site, www.vote.wa.gov. FOR OPENERS: Presidential election like none before BY LIZ SIDOTI White House black. Nov. 4 election. He’s already McCain’s advisers deeply THE ASSOCIATE D PRESS Analysis Among voters who haven’t made history as the first fear being called racists. yet settled on a candidate: black nominee of a major The issue boiled up over Race, an inescapable but “Joe the Plumber.” The the summer. Alabama Gov. George Wallace political party, and his candi- explosive issue on which both Ohioan whose last name is Obama said Republicans fostered in the 1960s; and dacy has energized minority presidential candidates have Wurzelbacher and was would try to scare voters by tread carefully if not tried to Democratic Rep. John voters in ways never before repeatedly mentioned during seen. saying “he doesn’t look like ignore, is increasingly pop- Murtha of Pennsylvania, who all those other presidents on the final presidential debate Among the unknowns: ping up as it’s becoming more referred to the western part the dollar bills.” told one interviewer that he Should Obama win the White likely the country will elect of his state as “a racist area.” didn’t get direct answers to McCain’s campaign, quick House, will racism become a its first black president. Among GOP allies: a Cali- his questions when he met to counter any notion of rac- Supporters of John fornia group, which distrib- Obama. He said all he got subtext throughout his tenure? ism, accused Obama of play- McCain and Barack Obama, uted anti-Obama literature was “a tap dance. Almost as Or does his presidency ing the race card. though not the candidates with stereotypical black good as Sammy Davis Jr.” work to soothe emotions still A recent AP-Yahoo News themselves, are amplifying America images of a water- All that, and in the third raw four decades after the poll found that 40 percent of the issue in the homestretch. melon, ribs and a bucket of week of October alone. civil rights movement and all white Americans hold at Among Democratic back- fried chicken. Polls show Obama, the son nearly 150 years since the least a partly negative view ers: Rep. John Lewis, the Another group put of a white mother who went end of slavery? toward blacks. black Georgia Democrat and Obama’s incendiary black for- to high school on Mercer Race has always been in The survey indicated that prominent civil rights leader mer pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Island near Seattle and a the background of the gen- racial misgivings could cost who accused the GOP ticket Wright, in a TV ad. black father from Kenya, eral election. Obama the White House if of “sowing the seeds of hatred A Virginia GOP official leading nationally and in key Obama’s campaign bristles the election is close. and division” and recalled the said Obama would hire rap- battlegrounds little more at any suggestion of exploit- atmosphere segregationist per Ludacris to paint the than two weeks before the ing Obama’s skin color. TURN TO PAGE 9 PENINSULA DAILY NEWS VOTE ! 2008 VOTER GUIDE FOR THE ELECTION O F NOVEMBER 4, 2008 3 C L A L L A M C O U N T Y County commissioner, District No. 2 What factors led you to benefit to Clallam County. $12.5 million. decide to run for county This reserve grew as we commissioner? Roth: I have lived and said no to additional spend- worked in all three [commis- ing requests while saving Chapman: I want to sioner] districts during my 36 new revenue received from maintain adequate reserves years as a resident of the the real estate boom in 2004- in the county budget in order county. 2007. to weather the current eco- I have developed a wide We will maintain adequate nomic downturn without los- range of contacts within the reserves in order to weather ing key services. county in government, busi- the current economic down- I want to see that impor- ness and community organi- turn without losing key ser- tant infrastructure projects zations. vices and while avoiding — like sewers east of Port I can be undeterred when Angeles and in Carlsborg and seeking a goal, and I try be a unnecessary tax increases. key transportation improve- representative of those I ments — are completed. serve. Roth: Continue to con- I want to continue sup- serve those funds as long as porting public safety by fund- To what degree should they last. ing the Clallam County jail the county foster develop- expansion and additional per- ment, and how should this What areas of the sonnel throughout the law occur? county budget will you cut and justice system without if forced to do so during Mike Chapman Terry L. Roth the need for new taxes. Chapman: Clallam your term in office? County is attractive to many Residence: Port Angeles Residence: Port Angeles Roth: I believe the com- who want to retire, start a Chapman: In 2001, Clal- missioner’s position is a full- business or just live and raise lam County had 422 full- Phone: 360-417-5101 Phone: 360-457-9297 time position, not “part-time” a family while working for time-equivalent employees, as stated by the incumbent. one of the great employers we and today we employ 409. E-mail: chapman@ E-mail: mroth@olypen. Having good relations with have here. the other commissioners is In 2002, we reduced work olypen.com com The county is well posi- hours, eliminated positions “nice,” but I’m not afraid to tioned to see continued eco- ask why and to say no when and still maintained core gov- Age (as of Nov. 4): 45 Age (as of Nov. 4): 67 nomic opportunities and necessary. ernment services. [Editor’s note: Chapman expansion while preserving In the past four budget Education: Associate of Education: Associate’s denied ever saying the posi- our environment. cycles, more than $4 million arts degree, Shoreline Com- degree, criminal justice; munity College; bachelor’s bachelor’s degree, criminal tion is part-time.