Occupy The Candidates

Project Statement:

Create a questionnaire that will allow Occupy sites to rate candidates without actually endorsing anyone, to both embrace the concept of political autonomy and yet to promote the ideals of the Occupy movement.

Events

• 18 Jul 2012 - (7p) "Occupy the Candidates" project will be discussed at the OSD GA at Childrens Park (1st St at Island) [Please note that there is no GA this weekend due to Pride Activities]

Status:

• Rough draft of questionnaire created and needs to be reviewed by Occupy committees.
• Needs to be reduced in length, so questions should be rated according to their importance and then choose about 20 or so for the final question set.
• Discussion here: Facebook Thread
• Source information from the Demands Committee

• OccupyTheCandidatesQuestionnaireV0.2.pdf: Draft 0.2 of Occupy The Candidates Questionnaire

Comments from Facebook Discussion Thread

As usual with Facebook comment threads, they are single threads and do not allow any direct comments. However, some of these comments are extremely valuable as contributions to the document or to indicate that the description of the question needs to be enhanced, perhaps with references, so that the reader will not have those questions when it is released.

• Occupy San Diego Facebook Discussion On Occupy The Candidates - This page is not public.

References

The following questionnaires are typical of the large number of questionnaires sent to candidates.

• CA_Labor_Fed_Federal_Candidates_Questionnaire_2010.doc: Sample Questionnaire from CA Labor Federation for Federal Candidates

• 10g_Survey_State.doc.pdf: Family Voter Guide, for reference

• 2010-09SDORC_Candidate_Questions_A-Final.docx: San Diego Off Road Vehicle Coalition Questionnaire, for reference

• 2010CongressionalCandidateQuestionnaire.doc: Peace Action West Candidate Questionnaire, for reference

• 2010_ANA_Candidate_Questionnaire.pdf: American Nurses Association Questionnaire, for reference

• questionnaire2010.pdf: Armenian American Issues, 2010 Candidate Questionnaire, for reference

• Questions_for_Legislative_Candidates.doc: Questionnaire from the San Diego Psychological Association, for reference

• CALA_Questionnaire_for_June_2008_blank.pdf: Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse questionnaire for 2008, for reference.