DV2020 nails candidate questions
In my October 25 post, What’s wrong with Victoria’s business community?, I blew up at the business community here, particularly the Chamber, for charging terribly high admission prices 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.
(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.)
I also castigated additional groups that I usually strongly support, Downtown Victoria 2020 (DV2020) and UDI Victoria, because their upcoming event (11/3) has a $30 price tag, too. 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.
However, to DV2020‘s huge credit, they’ve come up with the most complex and challenging set of questions to candidates. The set is called 2008 Election Questions for a Better Downtown Victoria, and if DV2020 posts the answers that candidates submit, we’ll be better able to make informed voting decisions.
The questions are organized as statements-cum-questions under four headings:
- Working with the Province
- The Social Health of Downtown
- Making Plans into Realities
- Stewardship of Downtown
These are super-smart, intelligent categories fleshed out by appropriate and probing questions. There’s not a hint of bullshit about them: straight, clear, urgent, and necessary. No matter if you’re a candidate or a voter, take a look at DV2020’s 2008 Election Questions for a Better Downtown Victoria and inform yourself.
And next time you’re at a free all-candidates meeting, go up to the mic and ask these questions.
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