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Mr. Lehman, I will provide an example simply from Dontae Payne's website. You stated "Dontae Payne, has been noteworthy for his unwillingness to say anything substantive..." I took a look at his website and on Affordable Housing he says, "We need multiple types, styles, and sizes of housing, with an eye on transit-oriented density." I'm unsure how "substantive" you would like him to be on his website. However, this sentence alone provides that he supports middle housing and urban density. That so happens to be in line with the GMA and also the mission of local homebuilders. Dontae happens to even have an entire section labeled "What I've done" that lists many of the votes he has taken and items he has supported. Frank Duracher takes a little more work to investigate, as do most school board candidates, but I've been able to locate historical videos from the past two years with him speaking at meetings and I've also ran into him in the community. Now, your opinion on the statements he has made are ceratinly your own and I'm not knocking them, but a little bit of investigation and you can see that he has made further comments around the rights of students, leading with kindness, and more. I also found that he was lambasted as a bigot after a long speech he gave about treating each other with kindness, but I'm not into judging folks like that without knowing them. It is a difficult thing to put yourself out there and run for office, and many policy idea specifics develop during that process. In fact, most candidates don't know exactly what will work and have a somewhat vague idea of the overall issues. That's the beautiful thing about democracy, we're all really learning a bit more each day. However, I have yet to meet a local candidate that wasn't willing to have a coffee and talk about the issues. They're typically very reachable. I do understand though that the general public is busy and often not familiar with the various ways of gaining information on specific candidates. I would say reach out to the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, maybe a PAC if your part of an organization, or do some investigating on Google, and even the PDC.