Candidate Interview Podcasts and Recap

Gentle readers, as we enter the home stretch before election day, we at >Rockville Central are keenly aware that many, many citizens of Our Fair City have been paying perhaps less attention to the election campaigns than the candidates have been.

This is to be expected — political people (I include myself) are an odd breed. They truly find it difficult to imagine that other people don’t care about such weighty matters as who is minority whip, or what central committee members are also executive commttee alternates.

In any event, the fact is that most people who are going to vote on Tuesday, November 6, are only going to begin focusing on that task this weekend. All those early-October candidate profiles and in-depth analyses are water under the bridge. It’s time, now, to focus on actual people casting actual votes.

As readers of this space may be aware, we interviewed every candidate for Rockville city office — mayor and city council. Not to toot Rockville Central’s horn overly much, but a few candidates have said that they thought the interviews provide among the best overview of their positions and backgrounds they have yet seen. The interviews were in late August/early September, before all the recent fights started.

We wrote up a recap of each interview, striving to present each candidate in the best possible light, using the arguments that they might make themselves. Here is an easy-to-print version of all of those Rockville Central interviews.

But, with eleven City Council candidates and three mayoral candidates, and doing this in spare time around the edges of a workday, there is only so much one can do. The full interviews go much more in-depth and reveal interesting tidbits. Favorite restaurants, hobbies, personal revelations — it’s all there. The interviews (we hope) give you a sense of who these candidates are.

I encourage you to take time to listen to a few.

I’ve linked to podcasts of them all below; they are all just mp3 files that should play in any portable player or computer with a sound card. (You’ll want to do this with a broadband connection; each podcast is around 3MB in size.)

Interviews with candidates for Mayor:

• Susan Hoffmann
• Mark Pierzchala
• Drew Powell

Interviews with candidates for City Council:

• Theo Anderson
• John Britton
• Bob Dorsey
• Piotr (Peter) Gajewski
• Rich Gottfried
• Carl Henn
• Phyllis Marcuccio
• Brigitta Mullican
• Tracy Pakulniewicz-Chidiac
• Anne Robbins
• Eric Kuohwa Wang

Again, here is an easy-to-print version of all of those interviews.

Thank you, those who will vote, for your attention to the duties of citizenship. Self-governance is not a free ride; it comes with responsibilities. Chief among those (but not alone) is the consistent exercise of the voting franchise.

(Images the Ace Project and Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter)

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