Comments on: Evan Rodger Taking No Contributions

By: Carlsbadoin

Carlsbadoin — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:53:43 +0000

We made our own t-shirts with Vote for Evan Rodgers on the back and Alga Norte or Bust on the front! Evan’s website says she’ll put the pictures up if we email them. She’s got fans in South Africa, Israel, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland, Japan. Grassroots gone global.

By: sk8r

sk8r — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:31:39 +0000

Rodgers for City Council 2008
Rodgers for Mayor 2010

By: Bonnie Wren

Bonnie Wren — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:38:55 +0000

I know Delaney.

She is sharp and she’s got no agenda other than what’s best for the community in the long term. She looks to get the job done, and then she does it.

Logan Jenkins thought Delaney might be lost at sea in Carlsbad politics, but I think her laser focus will help her navigate rough political waters.

Go, Delaney!

By: Carlsbadoin

Carlsbadoin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:47:25 +0000

I heard from a neighbor that the Rodgers girl is also a good artist and has donated art to charity auctions and designed t-shirts and programs for free for local youth sports teams. I emailed her this morning and asked her to post a downloadable design on her website that we can print out and then November 5, we can recycle. From her email to me before, she doesn’t put flyers on cars, etc because they just blow around creating litter. But if people were downloading and printing their own out, no litter. My kid is making a posterboard sign for the front yard too. No plastic.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:21:58 +0000

Thank you for blogging on Evan Rodger. I wasn’t even aware of her campaign beforehand.

She’s exactly what Carlsbad needs in our city government: youth and change. She’s the only candidate at this time who’s getting my vote.

By: carlsbadisbeige

carlsbadisbeige — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:21:08 +0000

She has my support. Since she is not making signs, I will print a sign with her name and website for the back window of my car. I’m trying to think of other ways to show support and help contribute to her already building momentum around town.

By: Rex Range

Rex Range — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:56:30 +0000

Carlsbadoin: AMEN. Sure, this kid has a remarkable story, but what counts is that she’s running with an aggressive agenda to get things done for this town. I’m looking forward to seeing what she can do in elected office. She has my vote.

By: Carlsbadoin

Carlsbadoin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:54:55 +0000

Logan Jenkins’ column today is about Rodgers.
I emailed her and asked her why she’s running. She’s got a fire in her belly about all these kids who can’t get swim lessons, skaters who won’t have a skatepark soon, and she has ideas to improve things in the Village without spending taxpayer money like putting local artwork in vacant storefronts.
I was skeptical about a college student at first but now I’m convinced that if we want to streamline and green our city government by using technology, shouldn’t we consider how the candidates employ it in their campaigns? Rodgers is using her website to campaign rather than plastic roadside signs.
Every time I see one of those plastic signs I’m going to think about this girl now because those signs don’t tell me anything other than they’re headed for the dump for about a thousand years.
Last year I was happy when 28 people were interested enough to apply for the seat which Sigafoose resigned. This year only 6 are running for 2 seats. Sure, candidates consider the time commitment required and other factors like random criticism but I think the dealkiller is money. We have to pick twice the number of candidates from less than a quarter of last year’s field because of fears that mountains of money are required to run. Lean and green looks good and smart.