January 31, 2008 06:45 PM UTC

Alice Borodkin vs. Joyce Foster

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• by: Mishalak

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

I live in Colorado SD-35 (barely) and with the caucuses coming up fast I thought I would go on the web and find out something about the two announced Democratic candidates.  And came up with nothing.  On competent, but uninformative, websites I found virtually the same platitudes about local issues.  

Apparently they both want to do something about uninsured Coloradans, find more money for Education, more public Transportation, and so on.  Though how they plan on doing this is totally absent, of course.  The difference being that Borodkin’s position page seem a bit out of date (T-Rex is over) and highlights her House of Representatives career whereas Fosters is less informative than her competitor.  

They cover all the usual things, donate, volunteer, short biography, but they are not of any actual use in deciding if either one of these candidates is worth supporting.  I doubt anyone will read this diary, but where the heck does one get information about local candidates?  Or should I be trying to button hole them myself, calling up to find out if they have a position?  Any position will do since it would be more than I have now.

Though if I were to shoot for the moon I’d like to know their positions on:

•Ballot Initiative Reform Proposals, is there a plan they prefer?

•Which, if any, of the conflicting amendments will they try to keep in their present form in the expected fight to keep in their present form in the State Constitution.

•Do they support more water storage capacity, the Million’s Flaming Gorge plan, more conservation money/regulation, or no major changes at the state level?

•What about the state’s prison population?  Do they have a plan to deal with the fact that as always we are spending ever increasing amounts to keep people incarcerated?

•Changing Colorado Education vs. Fixing Around the Edges, are they interested in big changes or just tinkering?

•Gay Civil Unions/Marriage, for, against, later?

And, of course, because I’m unrealistic I’d like real answers rather than non-informative feel good phrases.