Three questions

Published 8:00 pm Thursday, April 28, 2016

Most remember musician Krist Novoselic, who now lives in Wahkiakum County, Washington, as one of the founding members (with Kurt Cobain) of the famous Seattle grunge-scene band, Nirvana. Now he’s turned his attention to political reform, according to a March interview in Rolling Stone (http://tinyurl.com/krist3ask).

“It’s about transparency,” Novoselic told Rolling Stone about the 3 American Questions campaign (www.3americanquestions.org) he’s involved in. “It will provide information. Where do candidates stand on climate change? Where do they stand on the debt? Where do they stand on political reform? Hopefully, they’ll reply, and we can put together an objective analysis of where they stand and leave it up to voters. If they don’t really answer the question, don’t vote for them.”

The bassist is also the chairman of FairVote (www.fairvote.org), a nonpartisan electoral reform group, and was interviewed about the organization on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on April 22. You can watch the segment at http://tinyurl.com/kristfv, and a screen shot from it is shown.

That’s a lot of politicking. Rolling Stone asked him if he finds “any of this demoralizing.”

“If politics ever gets dehumanizing for me, I’ll just get out,” Novoselic replied. “I don’t really need that, you know? There’s a lot of Nirvana fans. They’re liberal or conservative or … they don’t care about politics. So if it gets dehumanizing … I get wonky (laughs). But I step back.”

— Elleda Wilson