The Mayor’s race is closing up in a few weeks, and we voters need to be get more informed of our candidates. We must live with our election decision for the next several years, and our next mayor can help Idaho Falls prosper or dwindle.
The local Post Register recently had a well-deserved cheers for the local League of Women Voters and Chamber of Commerce. They joined forces to host a candidate’s forum where the voters could question our candidates. The Post Register rightly saw this as a great opportunity and expressed a desire for more open forums.
This website will provide many local opportunities, but we will start by hosting an online space for our mayoral candidates to post their biographies, viewpoints, goals, and campaign promises. More than just functioning as a soapbox, each post allows voters to comment and reply to the candidates’ remarks. Candidates can choose to address or ignore voter comments in subsequent posts.
Comments that are completely rude or off-topic (generally not contributing to a dialogue) will be deleted by the site admin (not the candidates), and repeat offenders may have their IP addresses banned. Candidates can request certain comments to be removed, but the comments will be evaluated for content merit.
In fairness to election laws, most forums provide equal time opportunity to each candidate. In this forum, each candidate can post as much or as long as they wish. However, candidates will find shorter and sweeter is better, as voters will likely be turned off by anyone hogging the forum.
So here we go! The candidates are each personally invited to participate in this forum until election day. They are provided their own unique logins and passwords, or we can acknowledge if any do not wish to participate.
Here is our chance to have a true dialogue with our local candidates, Idaho Falls.
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Gato got runned over by Marcus many moons ago. Be ye daft, 2486? 
Let's have a new poll, alright, Joe?
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righton the question is if they are brave enough to respond in this forum, then we might be able to drill down to the real issues
Are any of the candidates affiliated with any political parties? I havn’t heard of any party lines in the race.
psot regstr today gave jeers to republicans for meddling in the boise city council race, and they say city council races are “nonpartisan”. suppose same way here
kinda like nondenominational?