[Vision2020] V2020 candidate questionnaire

[Barrett Schroeder]

Thanks to Bill London and others for their work on this 
questionnaire over the years. Maybe this is the year to 
make the questionnaire an actual product of the Vision 
2020 list?  

In the past the questions have been developed "off list" 
as suggested here. During the 2005 City election many 
people were referring to this as the "MCA Questionnaire" 
and when it was finally revealed who had created it, that 
title wasn't far off.  It was only the "Vision 2020 Questionnaire" 
because it was organized by Bill London and because First 
Step has been willing to post his items on the Vision 2020 web site. 

Although anyone may be able to respond to Bill's email and 
join the "committee" the practical outcome is that only certain 
people participate, not necessarilypeople who are even active 
participants on Vision 2020.  Joan Opyr, who is a participant 
on the list, posted her own questions, which led to some good 
discussions.

I suggest that we make this a real "Vision 2020 Questionnaire" 
by moving the process of developing questions into the open 
and onto the list, instead of private emails.  Years ago the volume 
of messages on Vision 2020 was much lower and it probably 
didn't seem practical to have an in depth discussion here. With 
the volume of messages today, that clearly is no longer the case.  
The process might go smoothly or it might be contentious, like 
anything else on the list, but the result will be a true, open and 
honest product of Vision 2020.

There would probably still have to be a way to decide on the 
final questions, and someone would have to do the legwork of 
getting those questions to candidates that aren't on Vision 2020. 


Phil Nisbet (whom we all miss) made some comments on this last year:

	"My point is simply that a select group deciding that they are 
	going to frame the debate and acting as a filter without election 
	to do so from the group as a whole is simply not kosher."

	"Just wondering how it is that without any poll of those of us who 
	are subscribed and members of this open forum, any "questionare" 
	from V2020 or for that matter a V2020 committee to devise such a 
	was come up with."

Phil talks about "election" and a "poll". Perhaps the final choice of 
questions, after some discussion, brainstorming and mutual editing, 
could be made by a simple email vote.  Each person could select 
their 3-5 favorite questions, and the questions with the most votes 
would be the final questionnaire. It might be wise to exclude anonymous 
votes, to avoid efforts to manipulate this.

I'm sure there are other suggestions on how this could work, and there 
is plenty of time before the election.  I think the questionnaire would 
benefit from being done in the open and actually representing Vision 2020.

Barrett



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bill London [SMTP:london at moscow.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:46 AM
> To:	vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject:	[Vision2020] V2020 candidate questionaire
> 
> For the last half-dozen elections, a V2020 committee has produced and
> distributed a candidate questionaire prior to the election.
> Now that the primary is over, this committee is getting ready to begin
> again.
> If you wish to participate in the selection of races to cover, questions
> to ask, and other tasks, please contact Bill London at london at moscow.com
> <mailto:london at moscow.com>
> BL
> ps. the questionaire results are posted on V2020 and on the V2020 website