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Dear Colleague:
I am writing to you as a Blandin Leadership Alum to alert you to an opportunity to help inform this year’s governor’s race about the real opportunities and issues your community faces. In partnership with E-Democracy.Org (a non-profit, non-partisan project to expand civic participation) the Blandin Foundation is sponsoring the nation’s only statewide on-line debate among gubernatorial candidates.
All six candidates for governor who will appear on the November ballot have confirmed their participation.
The online debate will take place over two weeks, from October 9 to the 19, concluding on the day of a statewide conference, “Next Generation Broadband: Policies, Practices, and People,” in Alexandria Minnesota on October 18-19 as part of the Foundation’s Broadband Initiative. E-Democracy.Org founder Steve Clift will present a summary of the E-debate content and participation at the conference. (For more information, or to register for the conference, visit www.blandinfoundation.org, or contact Denise Pfeifer, Minnesota Rural Partners; at [EMAIL PROTECTED], 507-828-5559.)
Candidates will address four major themes and 10 short answer questions over the two weeks. Unique to the other debates, a portion of the e-debate will focus on broadband/Internet-related questions. Along with text responses, candidates have the option to provide their Opening Statement in video via the YouTube.com video sharing service. They may also record their rebuttals into audio podcasts and provide links to content related to their answers.
Voters may participate by submitting text questions and by using the new “Voter Voices” section of E-Democracy’s web site to share their own video, audio, pictures, blog posts, links, and discussion forum messages across popular online services (for example, Flickr.com for photos, YouTube.com for video, blog posts via the Google blog search, etc.).
You can view an integrated, presentation of this material on a single web page at:
http://www.e-democracy.org/voices
The e-Debate, along with E-Democracy's collection of election links is located online at:
You can email your questions to the candidates via e-mail immediately, or by October 10th for the second round of questions, via: [EMAIL PROTECTED].
I hope you will take advantage of this opportunity, and encourage others as well, to help frame issues and opportunities important to the health of your community.
Best wishes,
James F Krile, Director Blandin Leadership Programs
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