Interesting. The only City legislative candidate respondents were:
4th Senate Jeff Smith
58th House Bill Haas
59th House Jeanette Mott Oxford
60th House Bob Bartlett
61st House Connie Johnson
108th House Tom Villa

Howard,
My thoughts exactly, however, interesting is much nicer verbage than I would have used. Let us just take the 4th Senate District race which has the most candidates in its primary. Where are the other candidates? A state senator has a much broader policy responsibility and budgetary/tax policy is among the most crucial of responsibilities. Heck Derio, as a former state rep. and who is supposedly a businessman, did not think it important enough to respond to the questionnaire. As for Yaphett, Amber, and Kenny--the two ladies are only interested in dirty campaigning, such as slinging hateful comments at each other, using religious zeal against a Jewish opponent to raise national money, etc. Should we entrust serious public policy issues to those who won't even share their ideas on economic policy? I think not.

We do not know a lot of things about this candidate survey. We do not know if the other candidates ever saw the survey. It could be there was a short turnaround for reply and it is still sitting in a pile of mail at the headquarters or candidate's home. That's not uncommon with mail sent to a candidate's home. It could be it was lost in the mail (my ACC was coming in two weeks after publication, am getting it on time now) or the sponsor sent it to wrong address because of a volunteer's data entry error. It could be that a volunteer or paid staffer made the decision not to bring the survey to the candidate's attention. It could be that a volunteer or paid staffer misplaced it and, rather than admit it, pretended the survey never existed. It could be that some candidates don't answer any surveys. It could be that the survey came with some kind of cover letter that turned the candidate off. It could be that some candidates know that their constituents or future constituents have never heard of the organization and/or will never get the survey results, so why bother with it. It could be that some candidates only answer surveys when they know they are ideologically aligned with the sponsors. It could be that some candidates only answer surveys connected to endorsements and contributions they want and don't bother with the ones that are purely informational.

Howard,

I think you hit the nail on the head with the last two statements, "It could be that some candidates only answer surveys when they know they are ideologically aligned with the sponsors. It could be that some candidates only answer surveys connected to endorsements and contributions...."

But, let's add to the list the following:
It could be that some candidates ignore their constituents unless they fit into a narrow demographic the candidate wishes to serve. And, it could be that some candidates run slipshod campaigns and bank on divisive issues to usher them into office without addressing real issues like this questionaire asks.