How does ECCO’s endorsement process work?
Before each election, ECCO forms a Political Affairs Committee. In so doing, we outreach to the community at large to form the team that will develop candidate questionnaires, do research, and conduct candidate interviews. By all accounts, ECCO does the non-glamorous work. We spend hours with candidates for Mayor, City Councils, School Boards, etc., ensuring the LGBT community is well represented at the local level as well. Based on this finding of facts, on public statements, community involvement, and voting records, this committee makes its recommendations to the Board where they are finally agreed. Endorsement meetings, where our Voter Guides are finalized, are when ECCO has its most vigorous debates. Forming opinions about ECCO solely on the end results that are printed, without considering all the thought and work that went into its preparation, is a disservice to ECCO, our volunteers, the exhaustive process, and our community.
