Children First/Communities in Schools creates nonpartisan voter guide

Press release from Children First/Communities in Schools:

 

(Asheville, NC) Local non-profit Children First/Communities In Schools has created a non-partisan digital voter guide to educate voters in the upcoming Asheville City Council election. The website, www.votebuncombe.org, highlights fourteen of the sixteen City Council candidates’ responses to questions on transportation, food security, homelessness and affordable housing, race relations, health disparities and school readiness (two candidates did not respond to the questionnaire).

A print version of the 2015 Voter Guide will be distributed in the October 21 edition of the Mountain Xpress, the guide’s distribution partner. The print version of the Voter Guide will showcase the responses from the six candidates selected in the City Council primary election, as they head toward the City Council general election on November 3rd.

“This is an exceptional year for the number of candidates represented, so we feel this is a great resource for voters to get answers from the candidates,” says Greg Borom, Children First/CIS Director of Advocacy. “We thank the candidates that took time to thoughtfully respond to our questionnaire and provide voters an opportunity to understand their positions on a variety of important community issues.”

Co-sponsors for the print and web version are: American Association of University Women, Asheville Branch; Carolina Jews for Justice; Christians for a United Community; Council on Aging of Buncombe County; Democracy North Carolina; Green Opportunities; Just Economics of WNC; League of Women Voters – Asheville/Buncombe;  Mountain Xpress (Distribution Partner); OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling; Pisgah Legal Services; United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County; Western North Carolina AIDS Project; Women for Women; YWCA of Asheville.