The SC will, at minimum, organise the following election campaign activities on a non-discriminatory basis:
Advertising on publicly owned land (with equivalent space given to all candidates)
The SC will solicit two notecards from each candidate and circulate these, in batches, before the polls open. The deadline for receipt of the first will be the deadline for declaring candidacy, the deadline for receipt of the second is 7 days before the polls open. One circulation is to take place shortly after the deadline for declaring candidacy and the second is to take place just before the polls open. The SC also has discretion to handle the May 2010 election differently as candidates are already declared for this election.
An event to 'Meet the Candidates' informally and/or an election debate

The SC will, at minimum, organise the following election campaign activities on a non-discriminatory basis:
Advertising on publicly owned land (with equivalent space given to all candidates)
The SC will solicit two notecards from each candidate and circulate these, in batches, before the polls open. The deadline for receipt of the first will be the deadline for declaring candidacy, the deadline for receipt of the second is 7 days before the polls open. One circulation is to take place shortly after the deadline for declaring candidacy and the second is to take place just before the polls open. The SC also has discretion to handle the May 2010 election differently as candidates are already declared for this election.
An event to 'Meet the Candidates' informally and/or an election debate

Pip Torok wrote:When people at a leave-taking are "mindful" of some passage like this one, it very often means that it's only a small bit, or small bits, of a passage that they think of, not the whole chunk from "Friends ..." until "till it come back to me." Do you know anyone who can recite it through by heart, Carolyn?

Pip Torok wrote:Many people among those I'm acquainted with would have known this already. They would have gone to the first key "couplet" (= a set of two lines). And here is that "couplet":

"The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred in their graves; ..."

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

Pip Torok wrote:Now here's the hard part, Carolyn:

Pip Torok wrote:Do you think the point of it is to encourage you to say good things at a "leave-taking", or else to say nothing? ....

"As internet kerfuffles go, it was pretty standard stuff: the arrogant noob shows up, starts telling everyone else how things should be done, draws some supporters and some enemies, gets their feelings hurt, airs private dirty linen in public, goes on a rampage against one of the community leaders, delivers the drama queen “IM QUITTIN NOW!!1!” post, stays away for a day or two, then comes back to deliver reams of snark, generally ignored."

• It's possible to want a town that above all is focused on minority rights, debate and political views.
• It's possible to want a town that above all is livable, tolerant of diversity and a community.

• Did ending the faction system of election change the outcomes much?
• Will changing the conditions of citizenship change the electorate much?
• Does the size of the RA matter? Or the proportion of RA members to citizens?
• Does having three branches mostly help, or mostly serve as an overcomplication?