We were starting to wonder if we’d be able to do it ourselves. Our thanks to those candidates that sat down with André last week to record answers to the questions submitted by our readers earlier this summer. Click here to visit the Your Questions, Their Answers homepage on the Election ‘07 site. Or you can just click the appropriate link that follows to hear their answers for the first two questions:

• Their goals
• Transit

Our series will focus on five of the six major candidates running for the office of mayor on October 9 here in Birmingham: Valerie Abbott, William Bell, Patrick Cooper, Carole Smitherman and incumbent Bernard Kincaid. We have also interviewed Willie Hendrix and plan to post portions of that interview as the first installment of our new section, The Platform, later this week.