Participating in last night’s Capitol Hill Community Council candidates forum was a cool experience. There was a good turnout of citizens. The slate of dedicated and qualified candidates did a solid job explaining why they chose to get involved and answering citizen questions. I didn’t ramble too much describing my decision to run for council president (yeah, vote for me — election’s in June, though). I got to meet the other candidate for president, Tim Durkan, and learn that he’s a great candidate that I’d be happy to work with.

And, I learned something valuable about how Capitol Hill communicates.

Three of the five candidates who spoke last night learned about the CHCC election process from a power-pole poster. Several people in the audience said that’s where they heard about it too. Of course, Capitol Hill has a rich pole-poster history and not all of it is good or well-lovede — but it turns out, those flyers are as important as ever. What’ll we do when they put all the wires underground?