This is my first post to this forum. I have found the forum very informative, and I had hoped that my first post could have been about something of greater substance and general interest than this.
Unfortunately, I have to respond in my defense to the post below. I want to assure Dan and everyone else who has read this, that I did NOT make the change to the e-democracy candidate website that he describes. Neither did my campaign manager, with whom I was meeting at the time this happened. I've checked my IP address, and was of course greatly relieved to find that it is not 63.228.6.203. According to my son, the computer whiz, it is virtually impossible for an ordinary citizen to trace that IP address back to its owner. So we'll probably never know who it was who erased that data and added mine. I can assure you that neither I nor my campaign manager did it, nor did we ask or authorize anyone else to edit the candidate data in any way. I think anyone who knows me personally knows that I have too much integrity to engage in any form of campaign dirty tricks. It is conceivable that some supporter of mine took it upon themselves to add my data. My son says it wouldn't be that hard for an inexperienced person to accidentally delete someone else's data when adding new data. If that is what happened, I sincerely apologize on their behalf. Dan, I can understand why you would have assumed that my campaign was responsible for this. But if anything like this should happen in the future, please check with me before posting your concerns publicly. Incidentally, thanks for making the correction - and for leaving my information in place. I hope that we can all run clean campaigns and concentrate on the issues, which is what the voters of the 9th Ward deserve. Dave Bicking Corcoran neighborhood Green Party endorsed candidate for City Council, 9th Ward www.davebicking.org On 4 Aug 2005, at 16:59, Dan McGrath wrote: > I see someone from the Dave Bicking Camp doesn't want anyone to read > information about Gary Schiff or Dave Shegstad. Pretty sad, deleting > other candidates information. Really diminishes the value of the site. > The edit in question, adding Bicking's info, and removing Shegsatd's > and Schiff's was performed today at 2:35 PM by someone with the IP > address 63.228.6.203 > > I've corrected it. > > Dan McGrath > Longfellow > http://www.smokeoutgary.org > http://www.subversivepictures.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steven Clift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:09 AM > Subject: [Mpls] Help update the master Minneapolis candidate list > > > > > > If you know of changes/updates, particularly campaign manager > > contacts, offices, websites, blogs, etc., please visit: > > > > http://www.e-democracy.org/wiki/Minneapolis_election_2005_candidates > > > > Also, we've started a space for an election calendar (please do not > > list fundraisers) from: > > > > http://www.e-democracy.org/wiki/Minneapolis_elections > > > > In the coming weeks we will be taking information from the master > > list and create simple web directories of candidates with campaign > > websites and/or e-mail (no web site/e-mail and you don't exist on > > our site :-)). > > > > Steven Clift > > E-Democracy.Org (snip) REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
