The chamber hosted several candidate forums over the past few weeks. The local tone has an entirely different flavor than the state-wide and national races.
It's refreshing to listen to local candidates talk issues and tell us why we should support and vote for them, rather than the trend of trashing one's opponent. Certainly trash talking has its place in the political arena, however, I'm of the opinion that it should not dominate the entire campaign. Usually it begins with someone saying something bad about their opponent and it escalates from there.
We need to remind the candidates of the words of the famous college football coach, Lou Holtz, who said about COMPETITION: "you'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him." Someone ought to post this on the bathroom mirror of every candidate running for office.
I for one am sick of the negative advertising this election season, and congratulate our local candidates for sticking to the issues and not succumbing to wrestling in the mud.
Now, if we could do something about voter turnout. If you want to complain about our elected officials, you better start at the ballot box first.
That's my opinion. What's yours?
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