Megan Perkins, candidate for Bend City Council position 3, joins the Editor Nicole Vulcan of the Source Weekly for “My View,” a video series inviting local candidates to share their views on a host of topics ahead of the 2020 election, while sitting in front of a view they enjoy.
Perkins chose to meet at High Lakes Elementary School, where she is a regular visitor.
Stay tuned for the Source Weekly’s endorsements of local candidates, on stands Oct. 22, 2020. The My View video series will continue with video interviews for local city, county and state races, all the way up to the 2020 election.
COVID protocols: Since the interviews take place outdoors, the Source team invited each candidate to go without a mask, so voters can get to know them and see their faces as they talk.
This article appears in Sep 2-9, 2020.
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Thank you Megan Perkins for your vision and activism. You have my vote and my husband’s vote. I completely agree with your views. I appreciate your honest views of how the city council handled the pandemic and not enforcing keeping tourists away and creating rules around travel and quarantining. I also agree that the council is not listening to the common people so to speak, and only listening to overrepresented groups. I am proud that you are being brave, standing up for our community and being a forward thinker and showing that you have leadership skills. Thank you for representing women, mothers, people of color and being a part of our community.
Thirty minute podcasts are nice for people who have the time to listen. But, I do hope the Source will print these interviews.
MickeyFinn: While that’s certainly a good idea, 30 minutes of video translates to thousands upon thousands of words in a print edition, and hours upon hours of transcription time. Rather than doing that, we have to choose to spend our precious resources on interviewing the other local candidates in the many races voters will decide upon this November. Not a perfect system, but we believe this valuable service we are providing to voters in Deschutes County, via these videos, is the best system we can come up with given the many constraints on local journalists’ time. Look for the endorsements that come out of these interviews in our Oct. 22 issue!
Unfortunately, podcasts are not accessible to a lot of people for all kinds of reasons.
Mickey Finn: These are not podcasts, but videos, and they play right from the page we are writing this on.