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We’ll compare apples if you’ll do the hiring

October 06, 2010

In just over three weeks, residents of Jessamine County will head to the polls to cast their ballots in the general election.

Beginning with the 2006 general election, The Jessamine Journal has held candidate forums in which the candidates fielded questions in a public setting. The economy and lack of resources to adequately coordinate and control those settings have prompted The Journal to go a different direction in 2010.

The paper has selected six races and invited candidates to attend for a question-and-answer session that will be videotaped and put on the paper’s website.

The schedule for these events is as follows:

• Oct. 7: Nicholasville mayor’s race and Jessamine County jailer’s race

• Oct. 14: Jessamine County judge-executive’s race and state representative’s race

• Oct. 21: Jessamine County sheriff’s race and Wilmore mayor’s race

During the Q&A, the interviewer, Journal reporter Amanda Baumfeld, will pose questions, and each candidate will have 90 seconds in which to respond to each question. The video will be put up on the Journal’s website the next day for the public to view.

The Q&A session will be open to the candidates only, and while supporters are welcome to come to the paper, they will not be permitted in the room where the interview is taking place.

This is to ensure each candidate gets a fair shake at answering questions without an opponent’s cheering section raising a ruckus in an attempt to distract the person answering the question.

This will be an apples-to-apples comparison. The questions will be hard-hitting, designed to make the candidates bring their “A” games.

As for the remaining races, The Journal will be publishing a general election special section Oct. 28 with every race profiled.

These, too, will be apples-to-apples comparisons.

The Journal urges the voting public to take this and every election seriously. Think of it as a job interview, because this is in fact what each voter is doing — he or she is hiring the next mayor, sheriff, state representative or whatever the case may be.

Throughout the course of history, countless men and women have died to protect our right to vote. Be informed, and don’t spit in their faces.

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