49th Ward Alderman Candidate Forum Invitation
Sent to:
Joe Moore, Alderman, 49th Ward - Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois
Don Gordon, Candidate for Alderman, 49th Ward - Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois
Dear Candidates for Alderman of the 49th Ward,
The Rogers Park Review is a recent addition to the Rogers Park blog world created by Gary Fuschi and Rebecca Rouilly. The purpose of this site is to create a space where the residents of the ward can share their knowledge, experiences and aspirations – a place to learn, to argue, to reconcile and to connect.
In this spirit, we are pleased to invite you to participate in what we hope will become a series of online, real-time candidate forums with the residents of Rogers Park, and others who have an interest in the community. In a post dated February 8th, 2006 on the Rogers Park Review, as part of a general mission statement, we announced to our readers that we would invite anyone who had formally declared candidacy as of February 17th 2006 to participate in the first online forum. We envision these events as cyberspace town-hall meetings, which will give candidates and constituents a place to exchange ideas and concerns in a comfortable setting designed to promote reasoned dialog.
The invitation you are reading now has been sent simultaneously to all candidates as of February 17th and The Rogers Park Review. These forums will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis according to the order in which we receive your response. Your response to this invitation will also be posted on Rogers Park Review for the benefit of our readers. We would prefer that you give us your answer to this invitation as a comment on the blog, as that would give us an exact date stamp for your reply, but we will also accept RSVPs by email.
The candidate question and answer forums will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis. Candidates who declare after the 2/17 deadline will be invited after we receive responses to the first round of invitations.
We will ask that all those who wish to attend the forum send their questions to us, preferably as comments to the invitation post, but we will also be happy to accept questions via email at rogersparkreview@hotmail.com. Rebecca and Gary will review the questions and topics proposed and organize these submissions to facilitate a manageable, focused discussion. We will post the agenda of questions and topics a week in advance of each meeting on the blog. We will not attempt to stage manage the questions selected – the selection criteria will be the frequency with which the questions are asked by our participants.
As moderators, Rebecca and Gary will not ask questions or make comments to the candidates or participants. Our participation will be limited to that of meeting coordinators and hosts. The actual candidate response to questions, and participant follow up comments to those responses, will take place in real time during the forum. We will post the date for the forum in advance on the blog and also notify the candidate via email. The content of each forum will be maintained as part of the public archive on the blog.
We understand that you may have questions and concerns about the format of the forums. Although the format will conform in the main to what we have described here, we also realize that there are still details to be worked out. We would be pleased to have your input on whatever ways you believe the format of this forum could be improved, and we would be pleased to meet with you personally to discuss ths input. The Rogers Park Review is committed to presenting these forums in a manner which is fair, unbiased and non-partisan.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Respectfully,
Gary Fuschi and Rebecca Rouilly
Joe Moore, Alderman, 49th Ward - Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois
Don Gordon, Candidate for Alderman, 49th Ward - Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois
Dear Candidates for Alderman of the 49th Ward,
The Rogers Park Review is a recent addition to the Rogers Park blog world created by Gary Fuschi and Rebecca Rouilly. The purpose of this site is to create a space where the residents of the ward can share their knowledge, experiences and aspirations – a place to learn, to argue, to reconcile and to connect.
In this spirit, we are pleased to invite you to participate in what we hope will become a series of online, real-time candidate forums with the residents of Rogers Park, and others who have an interest in the community. In a post dated February 8th, 2006 on the Rogers Park Review, as part of a general mission statement, we announced to our readers that we would invite anyone who had formally declared candidacy as of February 17th 2006 to participate in the first online forum. We envision these events as cyberspace town-hall meetings, which will give candidates and constituents a place to exchange ideas and concerns in a comfortable setting designed to promote reasoned dialog.
The invitation you are reading now has been sent simultaneously to all candidates as of February 17th and The Rogers Park Review. These forums will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis according to the order in which we receive your response. Your response to this invitation will also be posted on Rogers Park Review for the benefit of our readers. We would prefer that you give us your answer to this invitation as a comment on the blog, as that would give us an exact date stamp for your reply, but we will also accept RSVPs by email.
The candidate question and answer forums will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis. Candidates who declare after the 2/17 deadline will be invited after we receive responses to the first round of invitations.
We will ask that all those who wish to attend the forum send their questions to us, preferably as comments to the invitation post, but we will also be happy to accept questions via email at rogersparkreview@hotmail.com. Rebecca and Gary will review the questions and topics proposed and organize these submissions to facilitate a manageable, focused discussion. We will post the agenda of questions and topics a week in advance of each meeting on the blog. We will not attempt to stage manage the questions selected – the selection criteria will be the frequency with which the questions are asked by our participants.
As moderators, Rebecca and Gary will not ask questions or make comments to the candidates or participants. Our participation will be limited to that of meeting coordinators and hosts. The actual candidate response to questions, and participant follow up comments to those responses, will take place in real time during the forum. We will post the date for the forum in advance on the blog and also notify the candidate via email. The content of each forum will be maintained as part of the public archive on the blog.
We understand that you may have questions and concerns about the format of the forums. Although the format will conform in the main to what we have described here, we also realize that there are still details to be worked out. We would be pleased to have your input on whatever ways you believe the format of this forum could be improved, and we would be pleased to meet with you personally to discuss ths input. The Rogers Park Review is committed to presenting these forums in a manner which is fair, unbiased and non-partisan.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Respectfully,
Gary Fuschi and Rebecca Rouilly
3 Comments:
don gordon-
thank you for your participation. we will follow up your acceptance with a phone call to discuss any suggestions you might have or questions regarding the online forum. please use this e mail to contact us.
RogersParkReview@hotmail
Dear Gary and Rebecca,
I apologize for not posting my response to your invitation on your blog, but you failed to provide me with the site address. Nonetheless, thank you for your invitation. Your proposal for an online candidate forum is indeed quite intriguing. Since my first campaign for alderman, I have accepted every invitation to participate in a candidate forum or debate, and I plan on doing so in the upcoming aldermanic election. While I'm still rather unclear as to just how your forum would be conducted, I'm certainly open to the possibility of participating.
However, I think an aldermanic candidate forum at this time is a bit premature. The aldermanic election is a year away, and two other very important elections will be held before next February's municipal election. Let's wait until after the candidate filing deadline in December when we will we know for sure who the candidates are. There will be more than enough time to debate the issues in the context of a municipal election.
Very truly yours,
Joe Moore
gf posted this response from Alderman Moore.
alderman moore-
thank you for your participation. we will follow up your acceptance with a phone call to discuss any suggestions you might have or questions regarding the online forum. please use this e mail to contact us.
RogersParkReview@hotmail
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