Congress Funds Study on How To Avoid Constituents »
Posted By gunnyreef 1 month ago in News
This Friday, the tax payer funded Congressional Management Foundation is hosting a briefing for Members of Congress and their staff on their new study: Online Town Hall Meetings: Exploring Democracy in the 21st Century . The CMF study consisted of 21 townhall meetings where Members of Congress and CMF provided a moderator: spoke via voice over IP, and constituents asked questions and made comments by typing them. Only off-topic, redundant, unintelligible, or offensive questions were screened, and only questions asked by people who had not yet asked a question were prioritized.
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Tangent0011 month ago
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Sounds like a good thing. Technology is a tool like anything. Colorado has scads of mountain communities. I'm sure those people would like the chance to engage their Senators without hauling their Butts down to Denver.
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Of course the Tea Party folks will see this as a way to thwart their disruptive tactics. So be it. They threw civility in the gutter, let them lay in that bed. Also, from the article, there is no indication this is a Democrat initiative.-
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Tasine1 month ago
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Tangent, let's not get into this "it's your fault, etc" silliness. This is serious, as are the tea parties. Citizens have an absolute right to speak to their "representatives". This is a great plan, the TV, etc, but ONLY if they are still physically available on a regular basis for constituent concerns.
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OF COURSE IT IS A DEMOCRAT INITIATIVE. Why would Republicans and Independents want this? If they were the ones wanting it, it would NOT be happening. And furthermore, regardless of who initiated it, WHY AM I PAYING FOR IT?! Now these ingrates are having to hire people to tell them what to do??!! This takes the cake.
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Tasine1 month ago
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FTA:
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The online town halls increased constituents’ approval of the Member. Every Member involved experienced an increase in approval by the constituents who participated. The average net approval rating (approve minus disapprove) jumped from +29 before the session to +47 after. There were also similar increases in trust and perceptions of personal qualities – such as whether they were compassionate, hardworking, accessible, etc. – of the Member.
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This tells me there were no upset constituents there. What was there was hand-picked gullible suckers. Or perhaps, merely ACORN members.-
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normallysilent1 month ago
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Well I was called and asked to join in on one of the Phone town halls.
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I have been doing everything I could since to make sure this person is looking for a new job come the next election and am working with around 400 like minded people in the area which are all out doing the same.
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Tumultuous1 month ago
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I see that this thread has been twirled with typical partisan spin. Some of the commenter's have further manipulated the misleading facts stated in the article to support their personal perspectives. This disingenuous bias voids the relevance of their opinions.
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If the reader follows the links in the article, they will be taken to the actual report referenced in the article.
No where does the article state that this study was strictly a Democrat initiative, nor was it.
Here is the direct link to the study:
http://nposoapbox.s3.amazonaws.com/cmfweb/Online-T...
The report states "To enable Members of Congress to balance
constituent input and their own policy judgments and to effectively communicate and gain support for their policy decisions, they must use what we call a Madisonian or “Republican” feedback model".
"Twelve U.S. Representatives and one U.S. Senator participated in the sessions. Eight "Representatives conducted two sessions each, and four Representatives and the Senator conducted one session each. The participating Members were representative of the body. For example, for the experiment with the Representatives, there were 7 Democrats and 5 Republicans, with a member of leadership from each party; there was excellent geographic balance, and a balance of views".
The study is neutral, bipartisan and presents no bias. blog.heritage.org puts an irresponsible and misleading spin on the study by titling this article "Congress Funds Study on How To Avoid Constituents".
America is under assault by morally bankrupt Republican ethics, such as those exemplified in this article.-
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x_nihilo1 month ago
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Tumultuous -
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Did you miss your own hypocrisy? Just in case, have a look at your first and last sentence:
"I see that this thread has been twirled with typical partisan spin."
"America is under assault by morally bankrupt Republican ethics, such as those exemplified in this article."
Let me quote you just one more time:
"This disingenuous bias voids the relevance of their opinions."
With that I agree; and by your OWN standards, your opinion is irrelevant.
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bill3451 month ago
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who decides what is: off-topic, redundant, unintelligible, or offensive questions...
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have you been on youtube, seen the videos where democrates run rough shot and break congressional rules...
but hey, it's only our tax dollars - hope the study went the DNC's way....
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