The candidates for the MA-05 seat will square off for the last time tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7 pm, in a debate at UMass-Lowell.
Two of the questions will be selected from submissions online. Go to this link to have your say. Make it good — so far the questions up there are less than scintillating, and there doesn’t seem to be much participation.
The debate won’t be televised, unless you have access to Lowell cable access (LTC Channel 8), but there are other ways of tuning in:
WBZ, the Lowell Sun, LTC, and the UMass Lowell Political Science Club are co-sponsors. Each will stream the debate from its website: www.WBZ1030.com, www.lowellsun.com, www.ltc.org and www.uml.edu. It also will be aired live on WUML 91.5 FM, and on LTC Channel 8 in Lowell.
But I don’t want to open an account with another web site in order to ask them (I can barely deal with all my passwords as it is now). So I’ll ask them here, with the hope that someone might see fit to pass them along.
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1. Yes or no. Do you support the restoration of habeus corpus?
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2. Yes or no. Do you support the President’s plan to grant legal amnesty to telecoms providers for their participation in spying on American citizens (HT: CBSNews)?
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3. In the face of the largest foreclosure crisis in decades, what role should the federal government play, if any, in helping to keep many families in MA-05 from becoming homeless?
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4. (Follow-up to 3). The mortgage industry has become far more of a national and even global business than it ever was. What role should the federal government play in regulating home lending practices?
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5. The United States has run up a monumental deficit, accelerated by half trillion dollar cost (so far) of the war in Iraq. If crushing debt is not the legacy we want for our children and grandchildren, what strategy should the Congress use to contain, then reduce the national debt?
Here is a video explaining OpenID…
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…. I will make sure the questions get added to the queue, but without an account, you will not be able to vote or comment on questions, trust me the event is a lot more fun when you interact with it in this way!
Some days technology gets the upper hand-even though I’m generally pretty proficient on the web, it’s tough to keep up with all the tools. Thanks for the tips on how to participate.
In fact, you can watch a live stream of the event at http://runpolitics.c… as well. Additionally, as the questions are being asked, you can rate the responses, comment on them, and let the candidates know that the did or did not answer the question. In theory, the event should be driven exclusively by user-generated questions…but the concept is being tested out at this event.
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The environment at RunPolitics allows for interactive viewing of the event, and you are right, the questions there at the the moment are less than great. Let’s encourage people to get in there and submit interesting questions.