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Questioning Independents
Here's to the little guys (and gals) with the big ideas. Here's to the candidates with the courage to run on their own good name. To the wanna-be civic leaders unwilling to smother their beliefs in the hide of an ass or elephant.
Here's to the independents: men and women of conviction and values.
And they are … damn tough to get a hold of.
To provide you, the potential voter, with the need-to-knows on Richmond-area independent* candidates, we sent questionnaires to as many independent candidates as we could secure working e-mail addresses for. The following are the responses that were returned before deadline:
* Candidates for school board and sheriff in Virginia are not identified by party affiliation, and thus technically all run as independents.
Joel Bradner
Patricia Marie Carpenter
Kevin R. Damian
Eileen Davis
Marlene Kay Durfee
James M. Ellis Jr.
Daniel A. Gecker
William Kern Grogan
Kendrick Hall
Reese Haller
Luther Thomas Harris Jr.
Patricia Lancaster
George Nicholas Marchenko
Matthew Todd Martin
John L. (Jack) McHale III
H.C. Ted Mentz
John W. Montgomery, III
Andrew Bennett Morehead
Steven R. Neal
Silver Persinger
Uddin Omarh Rajah
Katherine B. Wadell
Here's to the independents: men and women of conviction and values.
And they are … damn tough to get a hold of.
To provide you, the potential voter, with the need-to-knows on Richmond-area independent* candidates, we sent questionnaires to as many independent candidates as we could secure working e-mail addresses for. The following are the responses that were returned before deadline:
* Candidates for school board and sheriff in Virginia are not identified by party affiliation, and thus technically all run as independents.
Joel Bradner
Patricia Marie Carpenter
Kevin R. Damian
Eileen Davis
Marlene Kay Durfee
James M. Ellis Jr.
Daniel A. Gecker
William Kern Grogan
Kendrick Hall
Reese Haller
Luther Thomas Harris Jr.
Patricia Lancaster
George Nicholas Marchenko
Matthew Todd Martin
John L. (Jack) McHale III
H.C. Ted Mentz
John W. Montgomery, III
Andrew Bennett Morehead
Steven R. Neal
Silver Persinger
Uddin Omarh Rajah
Katherine B. Wadell
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