Candidate for: Clark County Council – Position 4. New candidate for this position.
Campaign website: http://www.electromanbattan.com/ Age: 35
Summary Analysis: Roman Battan is a new politician, with some campaign experience from on prior campaign for a state legislature position. He appears well spoken and thoughtful. Mr. Battan’s work history shows increasing responsibility. Roman Battan has a 53% composite score. See details about score in the composite score matrix.
Campaign manager and team: Apparently self-run with volunteers.
Education – higher: Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from Washington State University, Vancouver.
Relevant work experience: Six years in banking industry, six years as the Director at a local software company, and now founding and running a small media and software production company
Organizations and community involvement: None detected.
Donation analysis: Roman Battan’s donations are substantially from individuals, many recognized to be left-of-center. These donors generally have strong insight about where the specific politician loyalties are, or will be. These people make donations based on this knowledge. Donations are considered small relative to amounts needed be competitive in this particular political race How to review donations.
Time in area: All his life.
Background for candidate: The following links have been chosen as they contain background information readers may find useful.
| Facebook campaign site. | https://www.facebook.com/Electromanbattan/ | |
| Columbian article | The Columbian | http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/feb/23/two-will-seek-mielkes-seat-on-council/ |
| Campaign website | Candidate | http://www.electromanbattan.com/ |
| Camas Post Record | Camas-Washougal Post Record | http://www.camaspostrecord.com/news/2016/mar/01/c-w-residents-to-seek-county-council-seat/ |
| The Reflector | The Reflector | http://www.thereflector.com/news/article_1638e580-f1e5-11e5-b015-07e6f72b790e.html |
| Columbian editorial board interview | The Columbian | http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/jun/27/county-council-candidates-meet-with-editorial-board/ |
| Linked in | Linked in | http://tinyurl.com/hnt6hl2 |
| Facebook personal | https://www.facebook.com/roman.battan?fref=ts |
Original analysis: July 2016. Updated: October 2016.
Produced by ClarkCounty.info LLC 2016