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Riverside Community Alliance '09 slate has a Website

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  1. Catherine
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    http://www.riversidecommunityalliance.blogspot.com/

    And news:

    http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/riverside/news/x415869526/Community-Alliance-group-announces-slate-for-2009-election

    Riverside's president and three trustee positions are up for election for April 7 and both parties have announced their candidates.

    New this year, the Riverside Community Alliance group announced Friday its slate for the elections.

    The candidates are Michael Gorman, village president, and James Reynolds, Lonnie Sacchi and Mark Shevitz, trustee.

    Mark Shevitz said the RCA started out as a loose issue-based group in 2007. The tax increment finance district was the first issue with which the RCA got involved and voiced opinion. In November, the tax increase referendum was an issue its members were strongly against —” along with 80 percent of the voters, Shevitz said. ...

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    I love the way the paper says "both parties", as if that were normal. Competition is good, feels good.

    Posted Tuesday Dec 9, 2008 09:53 #

  2. ChrisHajer
    Member

    Are they even parties in the traditional sense? The caucus website states that the causus is non-partisan.

    Posted Tuesday Dec 9, 2008 10:14 #

  3. Catherine
    Member

    Well, is it really nonpartisan when you select, fund and work for one set of candidates? Both groups are nonpartisan with respect to the Dem/Repub axis. Partisan means to take someone's part. If a group worked to educate voters on all available candidates, like the League of Women Voters, that would be nonpartisan. So, we have partisan here, finally, as in healthy competitiion, and I am glad for it.

    Posted Tuesday Dec 9, 2008 12:23 #

  4. Catherine
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    News, editorial, letter to the editor

    www.rblandmark.com

    Posted Wednesday Dec 10, 2008 10:20 #

  5. Catherine
    Member

    Might as well dust off this thread. No sense letting RP get all the free airtime.

    So, apparently they have formed a party this year. Do the Caucus candidates usually do that? Or do they usually just run unopposed without bothering to have a website or a platform? Did the RCA prompt these innovations?

    Posted Friday Jan 23, 2009 15:29 #

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