To assist in the RIRA election, The WIRE offers to run Candidate Statements as follows:

• One essay or position paper of up to about 775 words in the October 21 issue. Deadline 5:00 p.m. Sunday 10/15.
• One essay or position paper of up to about 775 words in the November 4 issue. Deadline 5:00 p.m. Sunday 10/29.
• One flyer, 8.5 x 11 sheet, printed one or both sides, as an Island-wide stuffer with the 11/4 issue; these must be printed by the candidates and provided by 5:00 p.m. Thursday 11/2, delivered to the Rivercross doorstation marked "for The WIRE."

First Vice President

• One essay or position paper of up to about 350 words in the 10/21 issue. Deadline 5:00 p.m. Sunday 10/15. [This deadline was later extended to 5:00 p.m. Monday 10/16.]
• One essay or position paper of up to about 350 words in the 11/4 issue. Deadline 5:00 p.m. Sunday 10/29.
• One flyer, 8.5 x 11 sheet, printed one or both sides, as an Island-wide stuffer with the 11/4 issue; these must be printed by the candidates and provided by 5:00 p.m. Thursday, 11/2, delivered to the Rivercross doorstation marked "For The WIRE."
• The statements must be delivered in machine-readable form, meaning by e-mail or on 3.5" PC-compatible disk. For convenience of publication, President & VP statements may not be combined if pairs are running as a slate.

Common Council candidates

• One flyer, 8.5 x 11 sheet, printed one or both sides, to be distributed in their "election district" buildings with 11/4 issue. Same terms as flyer described above for President/Vice President.

Again, these are to be for the candidacy of the Common Council candidate her/himself, not on behalf of other candidates. Any Common Council candidate on whom the printing of such a statement would work a financial hardship may apply for very limited subsidy support from The WIRE.

For these flyers, I will provide counts (that is, the number of copies needed) closer to the time. For distribution reasons, it will be necessary to print about 10% more than the actual building count, in each case.