Why does Game On, a grassroots public education advocacy organization, post about legislators and candidates at election time? Because it is very important for people to know where candidates stand on public education issues. When we first formed, we only dealt with policy, but we quickly learned there were legislators who did not listen to anything we said and who took their positions based upon instruction from leadership and/or their funders rather than their constituents. Constituents also often don’t have accurate information about candidates’ stances. The reality is that policy and politics are closely linked. We like to think in terms of 3 Ps:Policy, Politics, and Partisanship.