Nation, it’s funny how life sometimes ties things up in a neat bow for you.
I started my interviews for Wards 11, 13 and 14 several months ago, with a sit-down interview with James Maxim, candidate for Alderman in Ward 11. While I was out running errands today, whom do I run into, literally hours before the polls open? James Maxim.
I thought I’d take advantage of the opportunity to catch up, and ask him how the campaign has been going.
This is Part II of getting the Twibate answers up. There’s some more information about format and decisions on our first post, yyc Twibates Part I: Intro and Mayoral.
We held two twitter debates for aldermanic – one for odd-numbered wards and one for even-numbered wards. We had 10 participants on the first night, and 12 on the second night.
Because of the number of participants, I will merely list answers in order that they came in rather than a column for each candidate. Unless you don’t want it to be readable
A number of candidates answered with multiple posts. They are grouped together, and the time of the first post determines order.
Odd-Numbered Wards
Participants include:
Ward 1: Ric Lockhart and Chris Harper (First two questions answered during, the rest answered later that evening)
Ward 3: Gary Tremblay
Ward 7: Michael Krisko (Krisko’s tweets unfortunately did not show up on the feed, but we acknowledge his participation), Druh Farrell (answered all questions after)
Ward 9: Steve Chapman, Gian-Carlo Carra
Ward 11: Brian Pincott, Wayne Frisch, James Maxim, Ernest McCutcheon (post-event – see comments section)
Ward 13: Andrew [...]Read More
Nation, last night was a good night to be the Enlightened Savage.
I kicked it off with an all-too-brief appearance at the Calgary Tweet-Up (shout outs to @prairies and @theRoundhouse), and I was then pulled away so that I could have the pleasure of sitting down over a Coke Zero (this diet is going to kill me!) with James Maxim, candidate for Alderman in Ward 11. We had a great chat, a lot of which is going to make it into my later “candidate profile” post for Mr. Maxim, and he also kindly agreed to be interviewed on-the-record.
The following is the entire interview, with no edits save the deletion of the first 30 seconds of audio which included such gems from your humble scribe as “HOW DO I WORK MY iPHONE?” and “THANK GOODNESS FOR AUDIO EDITING SOFTWARE!”
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