We're starting to get some responses from candidates sending in their answers to the the KFTC Candidate Survey, which we will publish in a few weeks in our Voter Guide (50,000 copies strong) and on www.KentuckyElection.org.

It's a key part of our voter education campaign - asking candidates to make statements on issues and to relay those answers word-for-word to KFTC members and friends and anyone else looking for the information to help inform their votes and to make the democratic process possible.

We'll then have a strong statewide phone bank to follow-up with all of these people to make sure they're all set to vote.

We've sent surveys to all federal-level Kentucky candidates (US Senate race and candidates for all six Congressional races), plus many local state legislative, county, or city government races (check with your local organizer to find out what races we're producing voter guides for in your community).

As always, it has proven to be very difficult to get candidates to respond to our non-partisan candidate questions, which is why we need YOUR help this week.

If you are at events where any of these candidates are, ask them if they've responded to the KFTC Candidate Survey yet - or even contact the campaigns by phone or email to tell them that responding to this questionnaire is important to you as a voter.

We'll continue to follow-up with "official" KFTC phone calls and emails to the campaigns to encourage them to respond, but KFTC's strength, as always, resides in our membership so any action you can take to help would be very valuable.