Despite any previous reservations your blogger may have had regarding the candidacy of Eric Smith for Superintendent of Public Instruction, she feels that his platform is right out of a "conservative playbook" and is exactly what the doctor ordered for North Carolina's schools. Thus, Katy's Conservative Corner endorses him for this important office.
Why the about face? Smith has won our endorsement, in part, because he is the strongest candidate to hold off RINO Richard Morgan.
The classless Morgan left our state in a true lurch when he sold his soul to the liberal Democrats when he created a power-sharing deal with the now jailed Democrat, Jim Black.
For some reason, Morgan believes he can come back from his political death bed and win this office. Though this blogger has to hold her nose when going to the polls to vote for a (former?) Libertarian, we still think Eric Smith is the best man for the job.
Get to know Eric by participating in the video town hall, explained in the press release below. The primary election day is May 6th and KCC calls on all registered Republicans and Unaffiliated voters to select Eric Smith in the primary election.
(Reidsville) Eric Smith, GOP candidate for State Superintendent, announced today he will host a video town hall on www.communitycounts.com.
The purpose of the town hall is to give everyone with a digital camcorder, web cam, cell phone with video capability or access to any other digital video the ability to ask the candidates policy questions and anyone with internet access the ability evaluate the importance of all submitted video questions and evaluate the responsiveness of the candidate to the questions.
“This is a revolution in candidate-voter interaction. In the past, the principle questioning that went on was candidates answering the questions of special interest groups in secret. Answering the questions of the press that may or may not reflect the concerns of citizens was not always helpful either. In our Community Counts Town Hall, citizens submit the questions, citizens determine what questions are most important, and citizens determine whether the candidate was responsive to a particular citizen concern.
"I’m excited about a platform that by-passes the special interests and media gatekeepers and goes straight to the voters,” commented Smith.
Citizens upload their video questions to YouTube and then submit them to the community counts forum by pasting that particular video’s URL into the submit window on community counts. The forum arranges or "mashes up" the videos so citizens can see each question and vote to have it answered or have it ignored. The resulting score (answer minus ignore) is used by the forum software to move videos up or down relative to the ratings of the other questions. The candidate then links his/her responses to the video questions and citizens can once again vote on whether the candidate’s answer is responsive to the question.
The Smith for NC Kids town hall mash up may be viewed at http://www.communitycounts.com/forum/id=ericsmith.
http://www.smithfornckids.com also has a link to the forum.
Community Counts was created in 2007 by David Colarusso, a High School Physics teacher in New Jersey, to give voters a say in the questions that presidential candidates should address. His latest version lets any candidate create a video town hall.
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