[Mpls] Re: School Board Debates

[Tim Bonham]

From what I've been hearing lately, nobody (of those who commonly hold 
debates) is interested in trying to do one for a dozen and a half 
candidates.  Just too complicated, and probably not very 
informative.  You'd be lucky to get through 3 or 4 questions to each of 
them -- and that's with 60 second sound-bite answers.  Who's going to 
bother for that?  Remember the debates in 2001, with about 2 dozen mayoral 
candidates?  The candidates & their campaign staff outnumbered the audience!

And any debate organizer who tried to limit it to just the 'major' 
candidate would get all kinds of heat.

I expect we'll see some debates after the Primary, when there are only 6 
candidates involved.

Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson
ps: Who is organizing the debates, only 8 weeks to go.
Lee R. Eklund
Victory

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