{"id":7551,"date":"2012-04-02T22:32:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T05:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2012-04-02T22:38:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T05:38:51","slug":"candidates-speak-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=7551","title":{"rendered":"Candidates Speak – Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted 4\/2\/12 – I went to a candidate coffee yesterday on Monterey Lane, for Colin Braudrick, candidate for the 2-year seat in the special election, and Gene Goss and John Harabedian, candidates in the 4-year regular election (2 seats open).\u00a0 These are the three candidates that have been endorsed by SierraMadreNews.Net<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Towards the end of the gathering, each of the candidates got up and spoke briefly about their reasons for running, and I got out the video phone.\u00a0 I am disappointed that the sound quality is poor, in large part due to the windy conditions.\u00a0 I am more disappointed that, wearing sunglasses instead of reading glasses, I didn’t notice that the camera had not turned on for Gene Goss, who gave what I thought was probably the best of the three speeches.\u00a0 I’m more impressed with him each time I see him.\u00a0 My apologies to Gene.<\/p>\n

Here is Colin’s “speech.”<\/p>\n