<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I, for one, took the information seriously. Those who had excuses for not participating had, IMHO, fairly reasonable excuses. But it does tell me what level of other business could get in the way of some important vote at city hall in the future. Or might make them unresponsive to some issue in the ward that needed immediate action. One of the criteria that I expect my representative on any level of government to meet, is to be available when needed.<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 11, 2017, at 11:38 AM, Art Norwalk <<a href="mailto:art@norwalkcom.com" class="">art@norwalkcom.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Good point, Tom.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As to their recall votes, with the exception of the one who told us we can assume but we can't know.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- Art</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Thomas Schmeling <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:thomas.a.schmeling@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">thomas.a.schmeling@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class="">Art,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">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.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 <i class="">more</i> 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).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tom</div><span class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 11, 2017, at 9:31 AM, Art Norwalk <<a href="mailto:artnorwalk@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">artnorwalk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="">Tom --<div class=""><span style="font-size:15px" class="">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.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:15px" class="">-- Art</span></div>
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