Will Weird Austin Set the Norm?
Well…of all the city’s to break the mayor forum mold, it had to be Austin.
Organized by the Austin Area Human Services Association the event drew all the candidates for mayor, as well as the candidates for the city council.
The cool part—all their questions and a podcast of the candidate’s responses will soon be online. THIS is part of the V3 campaigns long range plan–to make the questions asked at each forum, as well as the replies, available for any and all to learn from or emulate.
But El Paso is not far behind. Check out my friend Frank Lopez’s effort that will take place tomorrow.
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April 29th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Central Dallas Ministries did this same thing a few years ago: they had the top 7 mayoral candidates speak at their annual prayer breakfast to address how they would partner with the local nonprofit community to address economic development in the Southern Sector and affordable housing overall.
When nonprofits stand up and speak, the world listens. We need to do it more often.
June 23rd, 2009 at 1:57 pm
I was wondering about this – do you have any suggestions? I’ve done some research but haven’t been getting very far. Looking for some guidance I guess…