[LD22exec] idea re. Olympia City Council candidate forum

[h.hunt at comcast.net]

Ok, as I've read through folks' thoughts on this, I think I'm coming down on the side of let's have Commissioner Kreidler or Rep. Williams speak.  The more I think about the candidate forum, the more touchy it seems to me... especially since I'm still not totally comfortable that we gave campaign services to Doug Mah's opponent...  

What it ultimately comes down to for me, though, is that only half of the LD 22 population lives anywhere that makes it possible for them to vote in the Olympia council races.  I'd rather do something that on an issue our entire LD can consider.  Such as health care - or even further voting reforms, like having the LD discuss thinks like Same Day voter registration and the like.

Hillary

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From: debbypattin at thurstondemocrats.org
> Dear folks: I am forwarding this email from Zack to John so he knows what
> the thought is on this subject of a city council candidates forum. If
> Thurston Co. Dems is going to have the city council candidates at the July
> 23 meeting, and the 22nd LD does not want to share the time (as we did
> with the Dwight Pelz presentation), then John needs to know this re.
> timing.
> 
> Also, if the 22nd LD wants to hold a separate forum, then maybe Thur. Co.
> Dems shouldn't hold the forum on the 23rd. I am remembering that the
> motivation for the forum is that the three positions are all contested and
> will be narrowed in the primary in August. Hence the timeliness of the
> forum.
> 
> Debby
> 
>  Hi all,
> > I would like us to host a candidates forum, but not at our regular
> > meeting.  Our main goal should be to encourage voters to consider voting
> > for Democrats.  The people who attend the TCD meetings have ample access
> > to the campaigns already.  If we hold a forum at one of our meetings we
> > are only stirring the pot and possibly risking creating a situation open
> > to criticize about fairness and process from the campaigns.  However an
> > open community forum that would attract people who otherwise would not
> > have access to the candidates could be beneficial to the campaigns and
> > TCD.  Please comment.
> > Zach
> >
> >>>> <debbypattin at thurstondemocrats.org> 7/7/2007 10:10 PM >>>
> > Debby here. At this week's TCDExComm meeting we discussed the idea of
> > using part of the time of the 22nd LD meeting for the first part of an
> > Olympia City Council candidate forum, with the rest of it at the start
> > of
> > the TCD meeting, like we did a few months ago when Dwight came down to
> > do
> > the Chair's Challenge.
> >
> >   There are three seats on the Oly City Council that have Democrats w/
> > campaign services running against each other.
> > I asked at the TCDEC meeting about the Tumwater and Lacey City Council
> > races but they reminded me that the Dems have not been asked for, or
> > given
> > campaign services to, any Democrats challengers....i.e. no Dem is
> > running
> > against Russ.
> >
> > What do you think of this idea?
> >
> >  Debby
> >
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