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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030902050007000401080207 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good on you Doug! On 15/04/11 1:47 AM, Doug Linzey wrote: > Warning: This is not strictly natural history-related, but it does apply > to most of us in an election period. > > Candidates will always ask you about your concerns. Don't tell them. > Whatever you say, they'll feed right back to you. > > Rather, tell them that in order to decide whom to vote for you have to > know what their concerns and interests are. Your own opinions are > irrelevant when it comes to judging the candidates until you know what > they really stand for. > > I have two standard questions for candidates: What are the three (or > four or five) issues ofmost concern to you in this riding? and What are > the three issues of most concern to you facing the country? Once they've > answered these questions, you can feel free to get into a discussion > about anything. > > If you want to know if a candidate is interested in the environment, for > example, you won't really know unless you ask these sorts of questions > first. If the candidate knows right off the bat that this is your > primary concern, guess what? You have an instant friend. > > One other point is that if the candidate starts to offer the party > platform or complain about the other parties, my response is, "No, I'm > familiar with your party's stand on things. What I want to know is your > own position." Likewise, if a handler tries to answer my questions, I > just say I'd prefer to hear directly from the candidate, thank you. > > Doug Linzey > --------------030902050007000401080207 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="hamst.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="hamst.vcf" begin:vcard fn:H. A. Thiebaux n:Thiebaux;H. A. email;internet:hamst@xplornet.com note:Retired x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard --------------030902050007000401080207--
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