Reply #3: You know .... I have a feeling that with some of the newly minted [View All]

polititians who are running - people like Webb - we may well have a better chance for that to happen. They're hungry and inexperienced, at least, and in this day and time, maybe more willing to hear and be heard. I have, over the last year, met a few who are running for their first-ever elective office. To the person I've found them approachable and willing to not just talk, but to actually discuss. Anecdotes are not hard indicators of larger trends, but I'm hopeful.

Anyway, let me ask you something .... I've been ruminating on this YearlyKos thing ..... and that led me do some other thinking ....

You and I have often discussed the idea of how bad it is that our elected reps only talk *to* us ('at us' is more accurate in far too many cases) when they want something .... like a vote or a donation.

Given the press of time and the difficulty of getting in front of audiences in convenient locations, would an only session be a suitable alternative? I've participated in a number of such sessions and even was a presenter in two of them. They allow for live questions to be taken and immediate answers to be provided. It isn't a live audience experience, to be sure, but it might be a reasonable substitute .... and one that could even be reasonably done .... I dunno ..... once a month, like maybe on a Saturday morning?

It would be nice if each pol took the initiative to set it up, but maybe we could use the infrastructure of the net that already exists and ask those who don't have the will/capacity/ability to do it on their own to use .... I dunno ... DU? .... something like that ...... to set up and operate the forums.

What do you think?