[Vision2020] V2020 questionare???????

[Phil Nisbet]

Dan

I actual do intend to vote for you.  My point is simply that a select group 
deciding that they are going to frame the debate and acting as a filter 
without election to do so from the group as a whole is simply not kosher.

How would the list of who was running have changed if the questions being 
asked had been different?

I look at things in an election that go beyond the list of questions they 
put forward.

Just as an example, we can take yourself as a person.  You have expended a 
lot of energy getting to the roots of the issues facing this community from 
hands on experiance.  How much do the other candidates understand simple 
matters of infrastructure that relate to our community?  The questions that 
were put forward were nicely touchy feely, but what about the real nuts and 
bolts of how this city gets run?  Where were the questions on how much 
fiscal experiance the candidates have?  Surely knowing how to handle a 
budget and actually provide the services to our town is more important than 
the seven questions that were asked.

Phil Nisbet

>From: "Dan Carscallen" <areaman at moscow.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] V2020 questionare???????
>Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 06:46:10 -0700
>
>Phil asks:
>
>	"Just wondering how it is that without any poll of those of us
>who are
>	subscribed and members of this open forum, any "questionare"
>from V2020 or
>	for that matter a V2020 committee to devise such a was come up
>with."
>
>Phil (and other concerned voter-type people),
>
>On July 19, Bill London posted "The Elections Are Coming", a post asking
>the vision2020 readership for questions to ask prospective candidates.
>(see http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2005-July/018936.html)
>
>Here's the text of the email:
>
>	"It's election time in Moscow....The candidates are beginning to
>announce for various races 	and the autumn filing date approaches.
>With the mayor and four council candidate positions 	open this year,
>it's bound to be an interesting campaign.
>
>	The V2020 Candidate Questionaire Committee has, for the last
>four elections, provided an on-	line source of the candidates' views on
>specific issues. If you would like to participate in 	the committee's
>work this year (creating the questions, communicating with the
>candidates, 	etc), please contact Bill London at london at moscow.com
>
>	The candidate questions and responses from the last four years
>are preserved on-line at
>http://vision2020.moscow.com/election/historic.asp
>	If you wonder what this year's candidate said four years ago,
>this historic record is the 	place to go.
>
>	Our thanks, of course, go to the First Step Wizards for setting
>up that web repository.  We 	appreciate their community-mindedness.
>	BL"
>
>Of course this was back in July, which seems like a long time ago, and
>some candidates may have not even fully decided they were going to run
>again.  But the chance was offered.  How many took up the task, I don't
>know.  I'd like to, as well as who they are.  Just for giggles.
>
>DC
>
>P.S. Vote for me :)
>
>_____________________________________________________
>  List services made available by First Step Internet,
>  serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.
>                http://www.fsr.net
>           mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com
>¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

_________________________________________________________________
On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to 
get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement