Whitewater’s in transition. Part of this is a shift – slow but inexorable – in the political culture of the city. (See, along these lines, New Whitewater’s Inevitability and Horses and Automobiles, Contemporaneously.)
There’s more than one way to wage a local race, and our city is getting a taste of the difference between a concentration on the candidates’ policies and peripheral developments that only distract attention from substantive policies.
There’s nothing surprising that a popular candidate, with a longstanding career in Whitewater, would have supporters properly and timely file fundraising documents in support of his campaign. It would be more surprising if he didn’t have those supporters and that support.
By the way, what’s the reported amount of the candidate’s current spending in question, compared with the city’s population?
Wait for it — it’s 2 cents per city resident. That’s cents, as in pennies, the small copper coins with Pres. Lincoln’s portrait on them.
(A single first-class stamp is 23 times as valuable as that.)
The total amount reportedly raised so far is merely 13 cents per city resident.
That’s all.
This a modest amount, raised and reported under law, from voluntary contributions.
It’s also too funny that an open supporter of the candidate’s opponent presents this news as though it were a revelation, a development, an issue, a topic, an item, a rare event, etc.
There’s a better name for it.
This is a sidehow, a distraction from actual policies and positions on which sound government depends.
What have candidates done, what do they profess, and what will they truly do?
That’s what matters.
Tomorrow: More about upcoming local races.
Interesting that money is coming into this race. Stay tuned!