A Candidate Forum is a good idea, and our DFL endorsed candidates
participate in nearly all of them that are held. But I'd be surprised to
see any Candidate Forum that attracts as many people as the nearly 500 that
came to the DFL endorsing convention last Saturday.
In fact, last year, candidates commented that the Mayoral
Candidate Forums had more candidates attending than voters (if you
discounted the campaign workers that came with each candidate). I don't
recall any Candidate Forum in 2001 that had as many actual voters as even
one-tenth of the attendance at this DFL convention.
So while Candidate Forums are nice, they don't seem to attract enough
voters to matter.
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish Ericsson
>Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 14:47:47 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Pamela Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [Mpls] School Board Endorsement
>
>. . . I would like to see folks get together and put
>aside their party affiliations, and develop a process,
>not of endorsement, but to facilitate a candidate
>forum which addresses . . .
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