[Summit] On the Recall Kevin Jackson Steering Committee Letter

[Art Norwalk]

Good point, Tom.

Knowing how candidates voted in past elections could be helpful to voters,
but the candidates are under no legal obligation to tell us ('not our
business' was a less artful way of putting that). How we assess a
candidate's refusal to reveal past votes is an individual political
decision.

As to their recall votes, with the exception of the one who told us we can
assume but we can't know.

-- Art

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Thomas Schmeling <
thomas.a.schmeling at gmail.com> wrote:

> Art,
>
> I see now that your survey did not ask directly how they voted, It did ask
> whether they signed the recall petition, which I assume they would not have
> done if they didn’t support the recall. I suppose it’s possible, but it’s
> hard to see how someone could sign the recall petition and then not vote to
> recall.
>
> But I cannot agree that it is not our (the voters’)  business how
> candidates for office voted in past elections. In fact, I can’t imagine
> anything *more* important!  I would have grave, possibly insurmountable,
> doubts about any candidate who invoked “ballot secrecy” to refuse to answer
> that question. (Recall that the question of whether Speaker Ryan voted for
> Donald Trump was a fairly major issue last fall, and he answered that
> question, as he should have).
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Jul 11, 2017, at 9:31 AM, Art Norwalk <artnorwalk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tom --
> No. Our survey did not ask the candidates how they voted. That is none of
> our or anyone else's business. One candidate chose to reveal how he voted.
> -- Art
>
>
>
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