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Gem state voter guide for Boise city election now available
Posted on: October 12, 2007
Boise is the third largest city in the Pacific Northwest, and as the Gem State’s capitol city, has a huge influence on the rest of the state.
Pro-family voters in Boise thus have a number of reasons to care deeply about what kind of public policies are advocated by candidates for Boise’s mayor and city council positions.
Yesterday was the deadline for candidates to return the IVA’s Boise City Election questionnaire, and responses have been received from candidates in all four city races, and their responses have been posted on the IVA’s voter guide website, Gem State Voter Guide – Boise 2007.
The Gem State Voter Guide is a non-partisan guide. There are no endorsements, no campaign literature, and no checklist of which answers are the “right” answers. Thus civic groups and churches are free to direct members to the site without endangering their 501©3 status.
The GSVG gives candidates an opportunity to let Boise voters know where they stand on the public posting of the Ten Commandments, invocations before city council meetings, “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, abortion coverage in the city’s health care plan, and sexual orientation in the city’s discrimination policy.
In addition, you will find candidate positions on more mundane issues such as fiscal and tax policy, transportation and land use issues as well as environmental and immigration policies.
It’s likely to be the most comprehensive voter guide available to Boise voters this campaign season.
For those of you who attend Boise area churches, please approach your pastor and ask him for permission to publicize the link to the Gem State Voter Guide in your church bulletin. And inform your fellow Boiseans of the critical information available here.
An informed electorate is an empowered electorate, and the Gem State Voter Guide is the place for Boise voters to begin the self-education process.
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Boise voter guide now online; Risch on the issues
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