Welcome to the SWFL 9.12 Project Candidate Watch
This Blog is intended to serve as a forum to explore South West Florida candidates and present the facts for voter evaluation. We value your input and will endeavor to allow all to participate. One courtesy we ask is that everyone refrain from personal attacks or rants. To encourage everyone to offer their input, we will moderate the forum. Those that can’t follow these guidelines will have their ability to leave comments restricted. We reserve the right to edit out offensive language from comments.
Each district, county or candidate main blog will be updated over time with relevant and useful facts from your comment entries.
Please review the pages listed in the dropdown menus above. They will include National, Florida and County candidates.
We will begin documenting our recommended aproach for researching and validating candidate positions on issues.
- Research other candidate tracking sites:
- GovTrack: http://www.govtrack.us/
- Project Vote Smart: http://www.votesmart.org/program_npatforms.php?year=2009
- On The Issues: http://www.ontheissues.org/default.htm
- Americans for Democratic Action: http://www.adaction.org/pages/publications/voting-records.php
- Research opponents site for potential news sources. These will have to be validated.
- Research campaign Contributions here: http://www.campaignmoney.com/advanced.asp
- Use general internet search engines (Google, etc) to find potential issues.
- You can validate candidate status at the Florida Election site here.
- You can search for Florida Campaign finances here.
- This is a very useful site to research campaign contributions.
- Link to many Collier County research tools here.
