From now until the June Primary I am going to be posing questions to the candidates for the 35th State Assembly District. Sometimes they will be policy questions and sometimes they will be focused on other subjects.

I will post them Friday night and give the candidates until Monday night to email me a response that I can post. If a candidate doesn't respond they will concede this blog to the other candidates.

The questions won't involve them creating well-researched issue papers but instead will help us understand the different ideologies and backgrounds of the candidates. Some of them will help us understand them personally. I'd expect most of them wouldn't be more than a paragraph or two.

Candidates, here is your first question:

Can you share with us a few of your most influential teachers and why they created a lasting impression on you? Feel free to share a few from elementary through your college years. Include what grade/subject they taught and where they taught at.

Please email your replies to me and I will post them next Monday.

Note to Mike Stoker:

The other candidates have sent me built in widgets to post whenever I write a blog entry covering this campaign. Send me a widget if you want me to post yours.

Leave your suggestions for Week #2 questions in the comments section. You don't need to register to comment but please keep it classy. Questions must be addressed to all candidates.

Assembly Member Audra Strickland has filed to start raising money to run for Secretary of State. She is termed out and I have heard rumors that she is thinking of running for another office, but the screen shot above shows she is strongly considering statewide office. Current incumbent Debra Bowen is up for re-election in 2010.

Click here for the filing page showing Audra Strickland's filing.

Debra Bowen is very popular with grassroots Democrats and she will be able to call upon them if she runs for Secretary of State or another office. Can we admit that term limits hasn't stopped career politicians? You should join Debra Bowen on Facebook, even if only to watch how the technology is being used by innovative politicians.

Click here for Debra Bowen's website.

Click here for a Wikipedia page on Audra Strickland. If you include additional information on Audra Strickland, her legislative record, and her past campaigns, send me an email so that I can post that it has been updated.

By the way: Did you see that Audra Strickland is preparing to run for Secretary of State on any blog or in any newspaper before my blog? Thanks for reading.