No Third Parties?

One of the frustrating things about being a third party guy is reading election coverage. Most papers seem to center on just the Republican and Democrat candidates and ignore everyone else, at least most of the time. The Times- Standard did that today with their story on candidates in the upcoming primary election. No mention of any third party challenges in the State Assembly and State Senate races.

I can understand it, to some extent, especially since they're dealing with a primary election and that can be quite confusing even to me. There can be so many candidates and parties to keep track of it could be a real can of worms to try to put together for a story.

We'll see how they do post- primary election. I know last time around the Times- Standard made no mention of the LP Candidate for 1st Assembly District, Ken Anton, until much later in the campaign season. It was downright irritating reading the story of Berg vs. Brown(?) with no mention of the other candidate in the race, even after the primary. But, once Ken did get some mention, it was a good write up, if memory serves me correct.

As an aside, I'll give the Times- Standard kudos for being the one paper I could link to today since it had all the news updated on their web page early on. The Eureka Reporter was kind of weird as it looks like their news is fresh but the Opinion page doesn't seem to have been updated. Santa Rosa Press- Democrat still has Saturdays news and opinion up as well, unless they've updated since I visited last.

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BTW; Don't forget to vote in the latest Times- Standard opinion poll when you go to the link to the article above. Poll should be on the right. It asks whether you support that proposed initiative that would ban political contributions to local campaigns from corporations from outside the county. Local Solutions sent notice to their people about the poll so I tell everyone else here.