Party affiliation error

To the Editor: Readers have valued Cascadia Daily News as a local paper of record. That trust makes it important for CDN to address promptly and transparently a serious oversight: a full-page campaign ad for state Senate candidate Dr. Erika Creydt ran on Oct. 16 without her party affiliation, which the Public Disclosure Commission requires in a partisan race. Notably, Dr. Creydt’s ads in other news outlets included the required party affiliation. This raises a critical question: how did the missing “R” occur only at CDN? I submitted a letter about the ad to CDN on October 30, which was spiked, and then corresponded with Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Martin. He eventually published an editor’s note, but not until Nov. 6 — after the election. The ad ran more than two weeks earlier, and readers had raised questions before the election. I understand that newsrooms cannot publish every letter they receive, and I am not writing to challenge that decision.

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