[RP TownTalk] Alice Ewen Walker in the Gazette (HINES, SUSAN)

[Alan K. Thompson]

Dear Ms. Lefkowitz,

Thank you for posting the links to all candidates Q&As on the Gazette
site.  The link in your post is extremely useful.

I do not, and will not, modify posts.  I sometimes must ask that
authors modify posts themselves to comply with list policy before I
can approve them.  The post to which you refer complied with previosly
posted policy (see the next-to-last paragraph in
http://riverdale-park.org/pipermail/towntalk/2007-March/001473.html),
which has been used to approve other posts that might be considered
electioneering.  I discussed the issue of links in otherwise
non-electioneering posts with the town council, and the fact that I
did not consider it electioneering, during discussion of one or
another of the many proposals for establishing policy.  The town
council did not give direct feedback on this issue, but they did
authorize me to decide what was and was not electioneering, which I
considered an implicit endorsement of my position, or at least
acceptance of it.  Thus, in my opinion, I had no basis in policy on
which to reject the post or request that it be changed.  While I might
have preferred your link, I could not insist on it.

Again, thank you for posting your link.

Regards,

Alan Thompson
E-mail List Administrator
Town of Riverdale Park

On 4/26/07, euniverz at aol.com <euniverz at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> This is a perfect opportunity to provide a link to ALL our candidates' Q&As
> from the Gazette, not just one.  A link to ONE might be construed as
> electioneering, a link to ALL is open discourse.
>
> I wonder if perhaps we'd have been better served by modifying this post
> accordingly.
>
> Go here to link on Q&As to multiple Riverdale Park candidates....
>
> http://www.gazette.net/porttowns/news/
>
> Thank you.