My friends the Fishkins are running this. This may well be our last, best hope for injecting sanity and reality in California politics...
http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/docs/summary/ -- Ernie P. Begin forwarded message: > From: New America Foundation <[email protected]> > Date: May 31, 2011 1:16:40 PM PDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: What's Next California? > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > > What's Next California? > A New Way of Approaching the Golden State's Governance Challenges > > The New America Foundation has joined a coalition of non-partisan reform > organizations, academics and journalists to conduct California's first-ever > statewide deliberative poll. This event, called "What's Next California?" and > conducted by Stanford University's Center for Deliberative Democracy, will > bring a randomly selected sample of the state's registered voters together > for representative and thoughtful deliberation on a wide range of governance, > finance and constitutional issues. > > New America has always emphasized work that is responsive to the changing > conditions and problems of our 21st Century information-age economy. Nowhere > are these challenges greater than in California, which not only faces > unprecedented demographic and economic changes, but does so with a governance > system that is fundamentally broken, and arguably incapable of implementing > the policy reforms that are so clearly needed. > > That dual challenge -- California's need for ground-breaking policy solutions > *and* the political infrastructure to advance such changes -- is what has > drawn New America to the "What's Next California?" deliberative poll. This > innovative gathering of citizens from across the state is a vital first step > for getting California back on the right path. Three days of thoughtful > discussion can't by itself reform California -- but insights that result can > be invaluable for the efforts that follow. > > "What's Next California?" will take place June 24-26, in Torrance, > California. To learn more, please visit NextCA.org, and join us on Facebook > and Twitter. > About the New America Foundation > The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy > institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next > generation of challenges facing the United States. > Forward email > > This email was sent to [email protected] by > [email protected] | > Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | > Privacy Policy. > New America Foundation | 1899 L Street, NW | Floor 4 | Washington | DC | 20036 > -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
