Bryan Weaver

…but they’re the good kind.

As the race for the April 26 election heats up, the many candidates vying for the At-Large seat currently held by Interim Councilmember Sekou Biddle are pushing to lay out where they stand on the many issues facing the District. The problem is that they’re not doing a particularly good job of it.

A review of the campaign websites of declared candidates finds that only Weaver has dedicated any space to actually explaining where he stands on issues ranging from education to youth engagement to Green initiatives. The majority of the content is warmed over from his Ward 1 run last fall, but it’s there — and still relevant. (Weaver also chatted with Greater Greater Washington this afternoon.)

Biddle, the assumed front-runner, described his passion for education reform when we sat down to talk to him and touched upon other issues in an online chat with GGW, but his website is surprisingly thin on anything of substance. Jacque Patterson lists issues and single-sentence blurbs, while Statehood Green candidate Alan Page outlines five broad principles underlying his campaign. Arkan Haile doesn’t allude to much more than education, but he does promise to flesh out his agenda over the coming weeks: “I will soon be posting more detailed policy positions on this website, and on my blog.” Neither Republican Patrick Mara nor Fenty acolyte Josh Lopez have any issue-specific information on their websites just yet.