YEARLY KOS: Ask the Candidates a Question
21 July 2007 12:11 am by Taylor Marsh
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I’m a member of the advisory
board for the YK Presidential Leadership Forum, along with former presidential
candidates, activists and other bloggers. It’s strictly volunteer, and now we
need your input. Here’s the scoop.
At the second annual YearlyKos Convention in Chicago the first week of August,
web activists plan to explore new ways to communicate voter concerns to Democratic
presidential candidates. The convention’s Presidential Leadership Forum–the
first candidate gathering for the netroots–seeks to provide an alternative
to mainstream media’s "gotcha" questions and horse-race coverage.
Instead, the plan calls for a thoughtful, inclusive discussion that draws
its topics and questions from citizens and activists, voters and nonvoters.
Forum moderators will be Matt Bai of the New York Times Magazine and Joan
McCarter of Daily Kos; blogger and NYU professor Jeffrey Feldman will ask
questions submitted by the public. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama,
Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd have all confirmed that they will participate
in the two-hour discussion, which will be followed by separate, unstructured
meetings with activists attending the convention. The process is designed
to spark a thoughtful national discussion that results in a more reflective,
substantive and participatory candidate forum. … ..YearlyKos
Sticks With the Issues
Andrea Batista Schlesinger & Ari Melber
You can submit
your question(s) via this form. But it’s very important that you participate.
These are your candidates and it’s important to get your questions
answered.
What makes a good question for a potential presidential candidate?
Something that the corporate hack pack won’t ask. Something that allows our
candidates to reveal his or her core principles about what we as progressives hold
dear. Any good question is also short, concise and easily understandable. A good question can be tough, but it also reveals respect for the task at hand, which is picking the best nominee to win in 2008.
If you have questions on how to phrase something, just put it in the comments
and we’ll all pitch in to make the question better.
But please submit
your question(s) to the candidates. It just might get chosen and
help us all learn more about who is likely to be the next president of the United
States.
