How We'll Be Covering the 2023 Goshen Elections
With municipal elections just a few months away, The Goshen News has already begun to receive news releases from various candidates. Local elections have a profound effect on our daily lives and as the only newspaper that reaches every Goshen mailing address, The Goshen News will open its pages and website to all candidates in an unbiased manner. Our aim is to bring readers the news and information they need to make the decisions they believe to be best for them.
Starting with our July edition, we will begin publishing pre-caucus candidacy announcements, platforms and qualification statements for candidates competing for contested/competitive positions on their party’s slates. After the caucuses determine the final lists of candidates, we will begin to publish candidate statements, and all candidates for elective office will be offered equal opportunity for comment.
The Goshen News will not publish third-party endorsements for candidacies or direct appeals for support (IRS rules prohibit tax-exempt organizations such as Goshen News, Inc. from advocating for or criticizing candidates for elective office, and publishing endorsements would constitute advocacy).
Candidates themselves may submit issue-oriented position papers and similar items as a form of voter education. Goshen News, Inc. will entertain first-person position statements of candidates for elective office that focus on qualifications, policy ideas and principles. The views expressed by candidates are intended for voter education and are not endorsements by Goshen News, Inc. For our print edition, we will limit candidate statements to 300 words plus a photo. More extensive statements will be considered for the online edition. All candidate statements will remain online until after the November election.
The Goshen News reserves the right to limit the number of candidate-written items so that it provides all candidates an equal, fair and balanced representation of their political values. Candidates may discuss their qualifications to hold public office, but may not use The Goshen News as a vehicle for criticizing their opponents or their opponents’ political party. No candidate commentaries will be published within three calendar days of an election. All candidate submissions, whether published or not, will be considered on-the-record comments potentially subject to news coverage and quoting in news stories at The Goshen News’ discretion.
