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Candidates Silence is Golden : Gets a Vote
By George S. Schroeder, Graylake

Negative campaigning is disgusting and I want it to stop. Have an idea, policies and defend it. Leave your opponents person/family/history alone. I’m writing this letter now because I’ve seen good friends burned by negative campaigning. I just had the chance to see what politics can be like without it.

I have known Adeline Geo-Karis for years. She’s a whip smart, sharp lady who has done a great job for Lake County for a long time. The things that were said about Geo in the pre-primary mailings were despicable. It might be too much to hope that a politician is a class-act, but the level of tastelessness that Geo’s opponent showed in that election cycle was astounding. I only mention this old news because I was recently reminded of it in a roundabout way.

Michael Bond, the Democrat running for the retiring Senator Geo-Karis seat, knocked on my door the other day. I had already decided not to vote for his opponent, but that did not mean that I would vote for Bond. When he came to my door, I tried to bait him into saying something bad about his opponent. I decided that if he started personally attacking her, then I would have just left the state Senate portion of my ballot blank on Nov. 7. Instead, I was very surprised.

He kept steering the conversation back to the issues. He wouldn’t say peep about his opponent, despite my best efforts. My favorite thing that he said was something like, “This race wasn’t about me or my opponent, it’s not even about Republicans or Democrats, it’s about northern Lake County.”

He had some interesting ideas about educational financing and road improvement, but I was almost impressed by his class. I can only hope that other candidates this year will adopt Bond’s policy of sticking to the issues.

George S. Schroeder, Graylake

Source : Fence Post, 8/15/2006


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