COUV.COM rolled out a new series of live-streaming HD interviews of 2012 Clark County primary candidates at http://stream.couv.com/live. The primary is Tuesday, Aug 7.

The moderator for the interviews is Portland radio host Victoria Taft, whose show runs weekdays 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on KPAM 860 AM. Taft has formulated questions based on the Clark County races for; 1) senator and representatives, 2) Clark County commissioners, and 3) Clark Public Utilities.  Candidates were also invited to submit their own questions for consideration.

In the next few weeks COUV.COM will live-stream HD interviews in the 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. time slots. Please check back for the schedule of upcoming interviews.

The first interview was  Wednesday, June 27. The participants were:

Eileen Qutub 49th Legislative District Senator
Don Benton 17th Legislative District Senator
Julie Olson 17th Legislative District Representative 1
Paul Harris 17th Legislative District Representative 2
Liz Pike 18th Legislative District Representative 2

COUV.COM has invited every candidate to participate in the interviews.  For more information on these primary candidates go to candidate filing list at Clark County Elections.

STATE LEGISLATURE, 17th Legislative District, Senator
Don Benton
Tim Probst

STATE LEGISLATURE, 17th Legislative District, Representative, Position No. 1
Julie Olson
Matthew Homola

STATE LEGISLATURE, 17th Legislative District, Representative, Position No. 2
Paul Harris
Jim Gizzi

STATE LEGISLATURE, 18th Legislative District, Senator
Ralph Schmidt
Ann Rivers

STATE LEGISLATURE, 18th Legislative District, Representative, Position No. 1
Brandon Vick
Adrian E. Cortes

STATE LEGISLATURE, 18th Legislative District, Representative, Position No. 2
David Shehorn
Ryan Gompertz
Liz Pike

STATE LEGISLATURE, 49th Legislative District, Senator
Eileen Qutub
Annette Cleveland

STATE LEGISLATURE, 49th Legislative District, Representative, Position No. 1
Sharon Wylie
Debbie Peterson

STATE LEGISLATURE, 49th Legislative District, Representative, Position No. 2
Carolyn Crain
Jim Moeller

CLARK COUNTY COMMISSIONER, Commissioner, District No. 1
Robert (Bob) Freund
Darren S. Wertz
Ron Barca
Tom Mielke
Joe Tanner

CLARK COUNTY COMMISSIONER, Commissioner, District No. 2
Pat Campbell
David Madore
Marc Boldt
Roman Battan

CLARK PUBLIC UTILITIES Commissioner, District No. 1
Jim Malinowski
Julia Anderson
David Campos
Philip A. Parker
Jim West
Sherry Erickson
Helen Nowlin