[Vision2020] V2020 candidate questionnaire

[Bill London]

Previous V2020 candidate questionaires have all resulted from a group of
people deciding though on-line discussion what races to cover, what
questions to ask, and then following through.  It was a V2020 questionaire
since the membership of the group was recruited through V2020 (though a
message similar to the one I recently sent).

Schroeder suggests (in essence) expanding the committee to the entire V2020
membership.

I fear that will prove to be unwieldly and a huge waste of time.  I do not
want this suggestion to bog down the process and eliminate the questionaire
(I have heard too often that this questionaire is useful).  But I am willing
to try expanding the process.

I suggest first establishing a timeline (starting with our end result).

election in Nov.
releasing questionaire results --completed mid-Sept
questions given to candidates -- first of August
deciding on questions -- end of July
deciding on races (which races to include, and assembling list of candidate
emails) -- end of June

Does that work?
BL






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barrett Schroeder" <Barrett at hideandfur.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:05 PM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] V2020 candidate questionnaire


> Thanks to Bill London and others for their work on this
> questionnaire over the years. Maybe this is the year to
> make the questionnaire an actual product of the Vision
> 2020 list?
>
> In the past the questions have been developed "off list"
> as suggested here. During the 2005 City election many
> people were referring to this as the "MCA Questionnaire"
> and when it was finally revealed who had created it, that
> title wasn't far off.  It was only the "Vision 2020 Questionnaire"
> because it was organized by Bill London and because First
> Step has been willing to post his items on the Vision 2020 web site.
>
> Although anyone may be able to respond to Bill's email and
> join the "committee" the practical outcome is that only certain
> people participate, not necessarilypeople who are even active
> participants on Vision 2020.  Joan Opyr, who is a participant
> on the list, posted her own questions, which led to some good
> discussions.
>
> I suggest that we make this a real "Vision 2020 Questionnaire"
> by moving the process of developing questions into the open
> and onto the list, instead of private emails.  Years ago the volume
> of messages on Vision 2020 was much lower and it probably
> didn't seem practical to have an in depth discussion here. With
> the volume of messages today, that clearly is no longer the case.
> The process might go smoothly or it might be contentious, like
> anything else on the list, but the result will be a true, open and
> honest product of Vision 2020.
>
> There would probably still have to be a way to decide on the
> final questions, and someone would have to do the legwork of
> getting those questions to candidates that aren't on Vision 2020.
>
>
> Phil Nisbet (whom we all miss) made some comments on this last year:
>
> "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."
>
> "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 talks about "election" and a "poll". Perhaps the final choice of
> questions, after some discussion, brainstorming and mutual editing,
> could be made by a simple email vote.  Each person could select
> their 3-5 favorite questions, and the questions with the most votes
> would be the final questionnaire. It might be wise to exclude anonymous
> votes, to avoid efforts to manipulate this.
>
> I'm sure there are other suggestions on how this could work, and there
> is plenty of time before the election.  I think the questionnaire would
> benefit from being done in the open and actually representing Vision 2020.
>
> Barrett
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill London [SMTP:london at moscow.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:46 AM
> > To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> > Subject: [Vision2020] V2020 candidate questionaire
> >
> > For the last half-dozen elections, a V2020 committee has produced and
> > distributed a candidate questionaire prior to the election.
> > Now that the primary is over, this committee is getting ready to begin
> > again.
> > If you wish to participate in the selection of races to cover, questions
> > to ask, and other tasks, please contact Bill London at london at moscow.com
> > <mailto:london at moscow.com>
> > BL
> > ps. the questionaire results are posted on V2020 and on the V2020
website
>
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