AT the risk of admitting I'm a politician, albeit a little fish in a
blessedly little puddle, I urge you not to set very many ground rules for
politicos to use the vision 2020 listserve. The only one I can really think
of that is truly necessary is:
"Keep a civil tongue!"
If the traffic gets to be too much to bear, we can try some informal
conversation control devices such as Jo Williams suggests with the 'news
day' format or just some personal control to let others have air time. Of
course, we have that wonderful editing device at the top right of the
screen: "X!"
Perhaps I'm too new to cyberspace to be jaded and have my in-box overfull of
exciting messages from friends in faraway places or politically powerful
vantage points. I get a kick out of hearing about Tom's adventures in
Boise...I love hearing the on-going pool discussion and comments because
very soon I will have to make a decision about this issue...and there's a
list of topics I'd love to hear politicians and voters and the disaffected
comment on:
+ The future of downtown Moscow and Downtown Pullman.
+ Support for Hometown Business...i.e., how can we encourage the
"buy local, great service" tradition in the Palouse?
+ Whatever happened to air service in Moscow? Having just made
several reservations for spring travel, all out of Lewiston or SPokane, not
by my preference, I wonder whether the Pullman-Moscow AIrport is just
another paid parking lot for the Palouse???
Let's keep the conversation going...I love the multifarious voices of the
Palouse! Thanks for stimulating a lively exchange, Mr. L!
Cheers,
Linda Pall
At 01:47 PM 1/18/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I'm interested to know if there are any ground rules on the use of
>vision 2020 by politicians. We all received Helen Chenoweth's multi
>page tabloid. We all helped pay for it as well. I'm sure many on the
>list would agree with Mark Trahant that this tabloid was a bit out of
>line.
>Now we are being treated to a state Legislator actively
>running for re-election and using 2020 to make us aware of his
>accomplishments and goals. Will this be allowed to continue up until
>the day of the primary? Until November? I'd like to see a bit of
>discussion on just where getting information to the voters ends and
>free campaigning begins. It might be an opportunity to get a feel for
>any rules that subscribers might think are appropriate.
> Thanks for the list, Tim Lohrmann
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