 be a good voter now  this is an election year this is where each of us as citizens of a great country owes it to ourselves and to our neighbors to begin the candidate review process now today we must take the time to find out who each of these announced candidates are go and meet them in the various meetings they hold and question them carefully about the policies they intend to promote yes it is going to take time effort and even some of our hardearned money however to wait until shortly before the primary election day in august could easily prove to be far more costly costly both in money and in personal satisfaction because you made a choice at the polls that later proves most unsatisfactory be prepared submitted for publication to the lansing state journal on march 16 2010 published on march 30 2010  