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and professional associations should step forward and invite the candidates to debate one another at schools, churches, country stores, and even the front lawn of court houses.
These debates should be aggressively covered and reported to the larger constituency by media outlets, giving those constituents who could not personally attend, a view of the candidates not connected to campaign literature.
Every election is important. Campaigns have gotten more sophisticated and impersonal. This is what has promoted the costly development and implementation of “slick” mailings, phone banks and campaign advertisements. Essentially leading to runaway campaign financing at a level which is most often an order of magnitude greater than what the electedposition provides in compensation.
This “mass marketing” technique needs to be reigned in and the process of electing a candidate reversed.
Citizens should make candidates debate. Communities should promote debate. The media should record the debate.
PATRICK W. ALLEN
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