Greenfield will welcome three of the four Republicans running for Congress next week for a forum to introduce them to voters. Hancock County Young Republicans is hosting one of this election season's first gatherings, inviting the men seeking their party's nomination to run for the District 6 U.S. House of Representatives seat to meet with the folks they'd represent.
The Facebook pages are up, the ads are running, and 200 strong marched in the Riley Festival parade donning shirts with slogans touting their favorites for local office. Candidates seeking their party's nomination in the spring primary election can't file to run for office until January, but at least two dozen Republican hopefuls have tipped off the party chairwoman of their intentions and already are campaigning for votes.
The answer depends on whom you are talking to. In doing the research for this column, I learned a lot.