With local elections tomorrow, Democrats are certainly looking to outperform the dismal results of non-presidential elections like 2010 that ham-strung local and national government with a wave of Tea Party-backed grifters, seditionists, and incompetents. Despite its reddish hue and nicknames of Pennsyltucky or Pennsylbama, there are voters in Central PA who would like to do their part to hand government back to those actually interested in governing.
Unfortunately, there's a dearth of information regarding the area's local election this year. Counties have been unwilling to work with normal resources such as the League of Women Voters' SmartVoter website (whether due to incompetence at the county level or a deliberate act in line with Republican's ongoing effort to disenfranchise voters, I do not know). And most of the races are nominally non-partisan, and as endorsements by local Democratic groups have been sparse or absent, there's not much to go on beyond a candidate's own sound-bites.
If anyone knows of better sources online for information about these Central PA races, I'd greatly appreciate hearing about them in the comments. If these resources do not exist, I'd very much like to see this diary serve as a starting point for collecting that data, so if you have any information about these races, especially if you can endorse particular candidates, please comment below.
As a Derry Township resident, I'm particularly interested in the school board races. Having moved here from Wake Co., NC, where a Tea Party takeover of the school board (fortunately now expelled) did serious harm to that community, the lack of information about the candidates beyond nearly identical sound-bites is concerning.
