ER - Local Solutions to meet with candidates

Any candidate who went into this interview process believing they were getting a fair shot at an endorsement was dreaming. All of the rhetoric put out by this "group" was deceptive, designed to pretend that they were bi-partisan and independent when they were in fact nothing more than the latest morph of Salzman's so called "Alliance for Ethical Business." Yet another way to raise money.

Local Solutions to meet with candidates
by Rebecca S. Bender, 8/12/2006

With the filing period closed for candidates for the November election, the local political action committee Local Solutions will be conducting interviews in the coming days to consider its endorsements for what promises to be a spirited race.

Local Solutions Board member Patrick Riggs said Friday that he’d be extending invitations to all candidates for the Eureka and Arcata city councils and the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District board of directors.

The four-member board will then sit down with each interested candidate for half an hour before making its endorsement decisions — likely in the next week or so, Riggs guessed.

The committee previously endorsed Humboldt County 4th District Supervisor Bonnie Neely in the primary election in June.

In other Local Solutions developments, Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap joined the board of directors last week as Michael Twombly stepped down. She joins Riggs, Alice Woodworth and Dennis Huber.

Sopoci-Belknap is the director of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County and served in the June primary as the campaign co-manager for Measure T, the ordinance prohibiting non-local corporations from contributing to county elections. She also sits on the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District board of directors.

Local Solutions most recently worked on the re-election of Humboldt County District Attorney Paul Gallegos and the passage of Measure T.

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