05-14-2014, 06:38 AM
@ RJ (and any other candidates for that matter) -
PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS
What qualifies you as a candidate (other than the basic legal requirements) for the County Council?
What practical experience do you bring that would improve the County Council?
What specific successes in your professional or personal endeavors have you achieved that directly relate to being a Council member?
Who are you willing to accept campaign contributions from?
Who are you not willing to accept campaign contributions from?
GOVERNMENT
Do you think eliminating obsolete laws, regulations and bureaucracies would help reduce wasteful spending in state government? And if so, how would you propose to do it?
Do you think state and local civil service rules make it harder to cut wasteful spending and to efficiently manage public agencies? If so, what would you do about it?
ECONOMY & EMPLOYMENT
What is your specific plan to increase employment for residents of the District and County?
How do you intend to address and/or prepare for the next recession, given that economic growth tends to be cyclical?
What is your plan to bring more transparency to the County Council?
EDUCATION
A direct way to improve public education (without additional cost) is to cut the bureaucracy and red tape that makes it difficult for principals and teachers to do their jobs. How would you propose getting it done?
DEVELOPMENT
What are your plans for more urban development in rural and agricultural areas, particularly in the key areas of food security, infrastructure, public transport and the funding for same?
What is your stance on public housing?
What specific plans do you have to address the increasing homeless/houseless situation?
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
With current technology, what alternative energy sources do you support and why?
Would you support making broadband universally accessible in this area? How?
What would you do regarding the waste/landfill situation?
What is your proposed plan for addressing invasive species?
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Do you have a plan for immediately addressing potential natural threats such as lava flows, hurricanes, earthquakes, rising seas, etc? What is it?
_________________________________________
Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
PERSONAL QUALIFICATIONS
What qualifies you as a candidate (other than the basic legal requirements) for the County Council?
What practical experience do you bring that would improve the County Council?
What specific successes in your professional or personal endeavors have you achieved that directly relate to being a Council member?
Who are you willing to accept campaign contributions from?
Who are you not willing to accept campaign contributions from?
GOVERNMENT
Do you think eliminating obsolete laws, regulations and bureaucracies would help reduce wasteful spending in state government? And if so, how would you propose to do it?
Do you think state and local civil service rules make it harder to cut wasteful spending and to efficiently manage public agencies? If so, what would you do about it?
ECONOMY & EMPLOYMENT
What is your specific plan to increase employment for residents of the District and County?
How do you intend to address and/or prepare for the next recession, given that economic growth tends to be cyclical?
What is your plan to bring more transparency to the County Council?
EDUCATION
A direct way to improve public education (without additional cost) is to cut the bureaucracy and red tape that makes it difficult for principals and teachers to do their jobs. How would you propose getting it done?
DEVELOPMENT
What are your plans for more urban development in rural and agricultural areas, particularly in the key areas of food security, infrastructure, public transport and the funding for same?
What is your stance on public housing?
What specific plans do you have to address the increasing homeless/houseless situation?
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
With current technology, what alternative energy sources do you support and why?
Would you support making broadband universally accessible in this area? How?
What would you do regarding the waste/landfill situation?
What is your proposed plan for addressing invasive species?
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Do you have a plan for immediately addressing potential natural threats such as lava flows, hurricanes, earthquakes, rising seas, etc? What is it?
_________________________________________
Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
_________________________________________
Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.