[Campaigns-l] Candidate Inclusion

[deane at jessep.co.nz]

I completely disagree for a number of reasons:
Candidates should be able to publish self serving rhetoric because:
1) This is an open Wiki, people can and will comment, that should in
theory keep their posts honest... making them representative of their true
views.
2) The ability to go back and conclusively prove that a politician said
one thing and did another is very powerful... more fool them if they think
they can simply annex earlier comments from the records as if it was
policy on their own website.
3) If you want politicians to be participatory then that must be truly two
way... if you want this to be a place to bash them without fair defence
then they (me) will not participate.
4) All of that said... if I were to put that kind of stuff up at all it
would probably be via a link to my own policy site.

Deane Jessep

> While I agree with idea of getting candidates to take part, the one thing
> that we have to remember - and this is huge - is that they don't simply
> use this as a platform to say that they're "for good schools", "a cleaner
> environment", and "REAL national security".
>
>   I would think that that would be the natural tendency for most in
> campaigns.  Don't give specifics.  Attack your opponent.  In a way, it
> can go against the mission.
>
> Janet Hawtin <lucychili at gmail.com> wrote:
>   On 8/9/06, Chad Lupkes wrote:
>
>> What we need more than anything is more people involved in gathering
>> candidate information and data on upcoming elections.
>>
>> Chad
>
> How about inviting the candidates and their parties to add their info.
> For things to be maintainted it would be good if they updated it
> themselves?
> This is a self publish kind of thing?
>
> Janet
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