Franklin County Coalition 2000 Voter Guide Now Available to Franklin County Voters

CONTACT:
Thomas Linzey, Esq.
709-0457

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Chambersburg (Sept. 29) - The Franklin County Coalition released its 2000 Voters' Guide today. The Guide, a result of Candidate Questionnaires mailed to candidates in August, is a compilation of responses to seven questions posed by the Coalition. The responses were then tabulated and compared to the position of the Franklin County Coalition, and a resulting consistency grade was assigned to the responding candidates.

This year's Voters' Guide features responses from candidates and incumbents seeking the offices of President, Attorney General, Auditor General, State Treasurer, State House, State Senate, and U.S. Congress. Overall, the Coalition received a 60% response rate to its Questionnaire.

This year's Questionnaire included questions dealing with historic preservation, support for locally owned businesses, protection for farmland and forestland, and positions on corporate factory farming and purchasing of high content recycled paper. The Questionnaire also included questions dealing with support of hate-free communities and support for renewable energy supplies.

The Franklin County Coalition has printed over 10,000 copies of the Guide, which will be distributed to the Coalition's organizational members and locally owned businesses beginning on October 6th. The Guides will also be mailed to the Coalition's individual members on October 2nd.

The Coalition will also be distributing the Guide at polling places across Franklin County. Last year, the Coalition successfully staffed over sixty polling places across the County. This year, the Coalition is hoping to staff all of the polling places in the County. The Franklin County Coalition was founded in 1998 as a unique partnership between the County's nonprofit community organizations and the County's locally owned business community. Those groups joined to support the Coalition's Declaration of Principles, which establishes a sustainable vision for Franklin County which protects the area's rural quality of life while sustainably developing its' Boroughs and Villages

To receive a copy of the Voters' Guide, Franklin County voters should contact the Franklin County Coalition at 530-0764. To volunteer to distribute the Guides at Franklin County polling places on November 7th, please contact the Coalition at 709-0457.