BIKE: Election Endorsements, Round 2

[Robert M Farr]

Just for the record: I am NOT speaking for ACA here.

For the purposes of the runoff between Margot Clarke 
http://www.margotclarke.com/ and Jennifer Kim 
http://www.kimforaustin.com/ I don't see the point in a 
survey/interview/forum.

Kim hasn't updated her web site since election night and appears to have 
thrown in the towel already.

Clarke has for years consistently courted the bicycle vote. I believe 
she's sincere, deserves our votes and she's almost certainly going to 
win the runoff.

If we want to make Clarke more aware of cyclist issues <sarcasm> and I'm 
sure there's an easy consensus among us on what those issues are and 
what we think should be done about them </sarcasm> it's probably better 
done by simple communication, not trying to put Clarke and Kim on some 
sort bicycleforum hot-seat for our edification.

Of course, that's just my opinion.
--
Robert Farr
Austin, TX
bobfarr

Michael Bluejay wrote:
> Okay, since there's still an election to be decided, let's revisit the 
> idea of endorsements from the bicycling community.
> 
> First question:  Would the Austin Cycling Association like to survey 
> and/or interview the candidates?  If so, great!  Let's go that route.  
> Bob/Fred, can you tell us what ACA thinks of this idea?
> 
> If that's not a go, then how would you listmembers like to handle it?  
> Here's one idea:
> 
>     (1) SURVEY.  I survey the candidates, like last time.  And just like 
> last time, I'll welcome submissions of questions we should ask the 
> candidates.
> 
>     (2) ENDORSEMENT.  Last time I endorsed by myself.  This time I'm 
> willing to consider taking votes from the members of this list.  (I'll 
> freeze the list for voting purposes, so new joiners can't join just to 
> vote for their candidate.  I mean, new people will be able to join, but 
> they won't be able to vote.)  But I'm going to expect to get at least 20 
> people from this list to vote in order to consider it a fair 
> representation.  (There are about 200 people on the list.)  What do 
> people think of this?  Or should I just endorse by myself again?
> 
> Let's try to come to some consensus on this by Tuesday.  Time's 
> a-wastin'....
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -MBJ-
> 
> 
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