
Voters nowadays have an incredible ability to do their own personal research on the candidates, but for some candidates the information is more readily available, and in the case of Steve Peace, that's a bad thing.
A Google search of "Steve Peace" comes back with the first result as follows:
Stephen Peace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The "Steve Peace Death March", as it was known, caused many legislators to switch their votes to support deregulation, and he took credit for being "the ...
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Ouch.
One of the citations from the Wikipedia posting is to a San Francisco Chronicle article, which reads in part:
During a hurried two-week conference in August -- dubbed the "Steve Peace death march" for his propensity to keep negotiators at the table late into the night -- the fine points of the energy law were hashed out.
Legislators entrusted their judgment to Peace and the few colleagues who worked on the bill. There was an abiding sense by a number of participants that few members of either house knew what was in the bill or even understood it. It was passed by both houses of the Legislature unanimously and signed into law the following month.
It will be interesting how he handles this obvious shortcoming if he does run.