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You know... I was going to try a write-in campaign... part of the reason was to
simply give voters a choice.  Another reason was for the civic exercise.  And
finally... public service of this nature has always apealed to me.  So, if
elected... I fully expect to serve, and am prepared to bring the time and
energy to the job that is required.

A smaller contributing factor promping me to "run" were two GT editorials,
encouraging a write-in campaign for Ward 5 because the GT considerd Mike
Beilstein a "single-issue" candidiate, and expresses the need for voters to
have choices and options.

Well, I sent the GT a press release the other day expressing my intenetions,
and I haven't heard back from them.  Granted, the window of opportunity is
closing fast, and write-in campaigns, are generally impossible to pull off.

However, if they do end up printing what I sent in*, if elected I will serve.
I do have a web site with my views on several current Corvallis issues at:
www.chezdre.com, click on the "Remember to Vote" icon.

Thanks for listening (and reading),

Andre Prochaska
Ward 5 Write-In.


* In the past I've sent "columns" into the GT, and they haven't used them... or
I didn't think they did, until two weeks later.  This happened once on my 2nd
published column on the Smoking Ban.  I submitted it a day after the first
Benton County Commissioners meeting that I attended.  They then decided to
print it more than 2 weeks later after a another Commissioners meeting. 
Between that time, I called and Emailed several times to see if they were
considering using it, or if they (the GT) felt I had already had enough say, in
that they had already rit.  But I had attended the next meeting, and I would
have liked to modify the article along those lines.  So it really cheeses me
that they couldn't at least call or Email me, and let me know the
article/column was still under consideration for publication (since I had asked
so often).

So, even though they had enough time to use my submitted materials... (and did
not) I wouldn't be surprised if they print them later than could possibly do
any good.  Anyway, there you have it.