{"id":2537,"date":"2007-11-14T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/online-town-hall-is-an-innovative-way-to-reach-voters\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T21:07:00","slug":"online-town-hall-is-an-innovative-way-to-reach-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/online-town-hall-is-an-innovative-way-to-reach-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Online town hall is an innovative way to reach voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rztj08xQVQI\/AAAAAAAAEBQ\/T0-F7kRgFTk\/s1600-h\/Chavez,+Martin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rztj08xQVQI\/AAAAAAAAEBQ\/T0-F7kRgFTk\/s200\/Chavez,+Martin.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132805961635878146\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Steve Terrell of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/SantaFeNorthernNM\/Ch_amp_aacute_vez_campaign_hits_the_Web\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a> and Kate Nash of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqtrib.com\/news\/2007\/nov\/14\/albuquerque-mayor-touts-online-town-hall-despite-g\/\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Tribune<\/a> wrote revealing articles today on the online town-hall meeting held Tuesday evening by Albuquerque Mayor and U.S. Senate candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martychavez.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Ch\u00e1vez<\/a>. Read their words if you want the details.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">What I want to say after participating in the event is that it was awesome. People from around the state got watch Ch\u00e1vez talk about topics including health care, <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and the environment. They got to ask questions by typing them into a chat box on the Web page. The chat box doubled as a place for discussion of the mayor\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">People from cities including <st1:city st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:city>, <st1:city st=\"on\">Santa Fe<\/st1:city>, <st1:city st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:city> and <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Washington<\/st1:city>, <st1:state st=\"on\">D.C.<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> attended. That included students in Ken Hacker\u2019s persuasion graduate seminar at <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">State<\/st1:placetype>  <st1:placetype st=\"on\">University<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There were, at the height of participation, only about 90 computers logged on, but it was a great introduction of such a tool in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. I would expect the number of participants in future meetings to grow significantly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This is a great way to personally reach interested voters. Ch\u00e1vez has promised to do it again. The technology is fairly simple, and I hope other candidates for federal, state and local offices follow his lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Terrell of the Santa Fe New Mexican and Kate Nash of the Albuquerque Tribune wrote revealing articles today on the online town-hall meeting held Tuesday evening by Albuquerque Mayor and U.S. Senate candidate Martin Ch\u00e1vez. Read their words if you want the details. What I want to say after participating in the event is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}