{"id":1083,"date":"2008-10-26T12:37:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T19:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2008-10-26T18:24:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T01:24:05","slug":"dv2020-nails-candidate-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2008\/10\/26\/dv2020-nails-candidate-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"DV2020 nails candidate questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my October 25 post, What’s wrong with Victoria’s business community?<\/a>, I blew up at the business community here, particularly the Chamber<\/a>, for charging terribly high admission prices<\/a> to the mayoral candidates meetings they’re sponsoring, and for not doing enough to use their networks, their ecosystems, to engage the community at large in a dialogue on Victoria’s economy.<\/p>\n

(And I blew up at the Chamber in particular for being locked down by Microsoft: you can’t register for their events online if you use either Firefox or a Mac — that’s just retarded, as far as I can tell.)<\/p>\n

I also castigated additional groups that I usually strongly support, Downtown Victoria 2020 (DV2020)<\/a> and UDI Victoria<\/a>, because their upcoming event (11\/3) has a $30 price tag, too.\u00a0 It’s another loss of the Commons, as far as I can tell, when you have to shell out that kind of money to listen to your city’s mayoral candidates explain what they would do to govern the city.<\/p>\n

However, to DV2020<\/a>‘s huge credit, they’ve come up with the most complex and challenging set of questions to candidates.\u00a0 The set is called 2008 Election Questions for a Better Downtown Victoria<\/a>, and if DV2020 posts the answers that candidates submit, we’ll be better able to make informed voting decisions.<\/p>\n

The questions are organized as statements-cum-questions under four headings:<\/p>\n