Candidates ignored

Regarding your Oct. 19 editorial endorsements in Triangle-area congressional races: You apparently couldn’t find enough difference between two of the candidates in the 2nd Congressional District to endorse either. Perhaps this was because you were unaware there's a third candidate in the race. Either that or you deliberately ignored the fact because you would have had to let readers know there was a candidate with significantly different, some would say radical, views. And that might have made your non-endorsement more difficult.

Or this oversight simply could be in keeping with the paper’s apparent policy to completely ignore Libertarian candidates altogether. In three full-page stories, The N&O has made an excruciating attempt to report on the supposed differences between the Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates without evening mentioning Libertarian Barbara Howe. Journalistic integrity demands, and North Carolina voters deserve, better, fairer and more complete reporting.

Brian Irving

Cary

The writer is the Libertarian candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2nd Congressional District.