So just like I did during the last general election I have poised a number of questions for the current slate of our fellow District citizens that happened to be asking for my vote come Tuesday.
While I posted my 1st questions here and only asked them of the GOP candidate that was running, forgot his name already, this time I have asked all the candidates to answer a few simple questions. And, I posted it on a blog that is aimed at all 8 wards and aptly named DCONECITY.com
Of course! I will be using the usual assortment of blogs, listservs, facebook, twitter, websites and whatnot to let everyone know who did and didn't respond and I will post their answers. As I am a big fan of open.gov.corp and dot org I figured I would use some these same tools to let folks see how I came to backing a candidate that I publicly endorse.
This is also the future IMHO. The fact of the matter is that having me or any other citizen ask questions, get replies and then make a decision is much better handled in this way. The old system of showing up some where with a few 100 folks to ask 1 question and hear canned speeches or worse with 20 or so folks and they all have checks is all part of the old ways.
Honestly with the tools available today I could run a campaign, target votes, map GOV and interweave a whole community for 1/8 of what these campaigns are doing today. It is a waste of time and if most of it is to buy media.that seem pretty insane in light of how important the whole notion of Social Media Citizen is NOW.
Besides! there is not enough money in your checking account to buy my vote let alone get me to blog about a candidate.
BTW I am calling it Cloud the Vote.
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