The “Strassman for Mayor” Website
I ran my campaign by talking
to reporters and putting materials—text, audio, and video—up on my
website. The website was built and
maintained by
The only media outlets that
posted the campaign site’s URL were
NetPulse (http://netpulse.politicsonline.com/content.asp?sname=IN+THE+STATES&issue_id=6.18),
Wired.com (http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,55911,00.html),
and Telephony magazine (http://currentissue.telephonyonline.com/ar/telecom_talk_broadband_economy_25/).
The Daily News and the Los
Angeles Times, enjoying a duopoly of coverage in the Valley and the City of
The League of Women
Voters/Smart Voter site did include a link to my campaign site on its own site,
at http://www.smartvoter.org/2002/11/05/ca/la/vote/strassman_m/.
Since most people got most of their information about the
campaign from these two papers (the local radio and television “news” stations,
private and public, were fastidious in not covering the San Fernando Valley
Reorganization Area Mayor’s race), my multimedia website was like the
proverbial tree falling in the forest.
With no one knowing where the site was, all the text and audio and video
ceased to exist, at least as a source of communications.
But I’ll include the URL here, so you can see what most
voters missed:
I’ll also include a copy of website itself:
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Here’s how I did:
Official Results in
Mayor’s Race
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http://rrccmain.co.la.ca.us/0022_LocalContest_Frame.htm
LA-SFV AREA REORG - MAYOR
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Candidate |
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Votes |
Percent |
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KEITH S RICHMAN |
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91,865 |
52.6 |
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BENITO B BERNAL |
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20,186 |
11.56 |
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D R HERNANDEZ JR |
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16,139 |
9.24 |
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LEONARD SHAPIRO |
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15,015 |
8.6 |
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MEL WILSON |
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12,009 |
6.88 |
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BRUCE JOHN BOYER |
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4,350 |
2.49 |
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HENRY DUKE DIVINA |
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4,316 |
2.47 |
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MARC STRASSMAN |
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4,132 |
2.37 |
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GREGORY E ROBERTS |
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3,647 |
2.09 |
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JIM SUMMERS |
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2,978 |
1.71 |
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Registration |
563,857 |
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Precincts Reporting |
681 |
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Total Precincts |
681 |
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% Precincts Reporting |
100 |
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One title
I’ve held for a while now is “Contributing Editor” at NetPulse, an online
newsletter about e-politics and e-government maintained by PoliticsOnline (http://netpulse.politicsonline.com/). After the Valley Secession Election I checked
to see what I’d sent them over the years.
Here’s a copy of it.
Contributions to and Coverage
by NetPulse
(Fe
Search Results
Your
search returned 18 articles.
- POL CONTRIBUTING EDITOR FIRES UP THE WEB OUT WEST
Note: From Issue 6.18, section "IN THE STATES".
Contributing Editor Marc Strassman has been making a stir out West online lately. A mayoral candidate for the unsuccessful
Note: From Issue 6.15, section "IN THE STATES".
Contributing Editor Marc Strassman has an interesting campaign going in the- EU ONLINE VOTING
Note: From Issue 5.16, section "THE WORLD'S WIDE WEB".
Contributing editor Marc Strassman reports that while Internet voting is battered in the - E-GOV BILL
Note: From Issue 5.14, section "MODEM-OCRACY".
During a July 11 hearing, Senate Republicans were skeptical of Sen. Joe Lieberman's blueprint for building an electronic government. According to Federal Computer Week, Lieberman said his E-Government Act of 2001 would harness information technology to make the federal government better deliver services to citizens, improve accountability and cut costs. More: USA Today. In a related development, Los Angeles-based Contributing Editor and President of Citizens United for Excellence in E-Government Marc Strassman was invited by Senate Government Affairs committee staff to submit testimony on S. 803, the "E-Government Act of 2001." You can get a PDF copy of his testimony and access links to a copy of the bill, other witnesses' testimony, the official analysis of the bill, and an article on the status and benefits of e-government worldwide by following this link. - INTERNET CZAR
Note: From Issue 5.12, section "DC CONNECTION".
Contributing editor Marc Strassman forwarded a Bush Administration press release in which the Office of Management and Budget named Mark A. Forman to serve as associate director of OMB for Information Technology and E-Government. In his role, "Mr. Forman will work to fulfill the President's vision of using the Internet to create a citizen-centric government."
Note: From Issue 5.04, section "IN THE STATES".
Contributing editor Marc Strassman of the Smart Initiatives Project says the state of- ONLINE INITIATIVES
Note: From Issue 4.17, section "NETPULSE BRIEFS".
Los Angeles-based contributing editor Marc Strassman reports he recently submitted a request to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer to allow his Smart Initiatives Project to begin collecting the 420,260 signatures it needs to be put on the March 2002 ballot. According to Strassman, "The Smart Initiatives movement is working to give all citizens the right and the means to sign initiative and other official petitions online, with binding legal effect, using free digital certificates issued by state governments. Our slogan is 'Political Reform through Internet Power'." For details, visit the Smart Initiatives Project website. Other news: Strassman will be addressing the PKI Forum's annual meeting in - ONLINE VOTING GARNERS MORE ATTENTION
Note: From Issue 3.24, section "NETPULSE BRIEFS".
More states are considering using online voting to boost turnout, USA Today reported Dec. 7. Wired outlined in a Dec. 9 report how - NATIONAL ONLINE PRIMARY STARTS FRIDAY
Note: From Issue 3.23, section "NETPULSE BRIEFS".
What's being billed as the first online - BEATTY WATCH
Note: From Issue 3.18, section "THE WHITE HOUSE HORSE RACE".
Contributing editor Marc Strassman, who lives close to Hollywood in California, says he’s been having fun watching the emergence of the online “Beatty for President effort. “Anyone interested in watching or helping Clyde Barrow-John Reed-Mickey One-Dick Tracy-Bugsy Siegel-Bulworth in an extensive audition for the role of American President should visit http://www.beatty2000.com/ and/or join the fun at: beatty4pres-subscribe@onelist.com,” he writes. - VOTE NOTES
Note: From Issue 3.17, section "NETPULSE BRIEFS".
Swarthmore political science professor Rick Valelly argued online voting would be a big mistake in the new issue of The New Republic. Online voting, he says, will foster even more apathy. Absentee voting, for example, has long been an option for people who couldn’t make it to the ballot box on election day. “The problem is that e-voting will transform voting, an inherently public activity, into a private one,” he writes. “If our era is a time of citizen disengagement, of staring at screens and passing in and out of our gated communities or apartment fortresses as we wave to private security personnel, then e-voting from home is all too congruent with the spirit of the age. Far from enriching democracy, e-voting pushes us toward political anomie.” As NetPulse readers would expect, Valelly’s comments raised the ire of contributing editor and e-voting proponent Marc Strassman, who fired off a letter to the editor of The New Republic. In the letter, he countered that the virtual community wasn’t a sheltered, lonely place. Instead, it is a lively community “in which almost every form of political activity except voting is taking place with increasing - GETTING GOOEY
Note: From Issue 3.16, section "NEAT IDEA".
EGooey is a free Web/chat tool that allows users to post little electronic yellow notes and “talk” with others who are simultaneously using a Web site. Says contributing editor Marc Strassman: "This is either the latest way to waste a lot of time online, or a valuable tool for building community among like-minded Netizens." - ONLINE VOTING ROUNDUP
Note: From Issue 3.13, section "NETPULSE BRIEFS".
In recent days, stories about online voting whirled through the Web. Here's a summary of the top news: - Military voting
muscle. The U.S. Department of Defense is leading the way for online
voting through a pilot program in five states. The DOD's Federal Voting
Assistance Program will allow service members in
- Global referenda.
IBM Chairman and CEO Lou Gerstner told a congressional committee in June
that technological developments in the infant information age have the
potential to have worldwide impact on political systems with innovations
like global referenda, according to a CNN report . "Why not envision
a day when we vote with much greater convenience - - from our home or
workplace - - or a day beyond that when issues are presented to all the
people of the world and we vote as a global statement of individual
preference without regard for conventions like political parties or
national borders?" Gerstner asked at a hearing on Capitol Hill.
- Changing
everything. Contributing editor Marc Strassman says online voting may
empower people in a June 17 column in Intellectual Capital. "It may
become practical to allow voters to aggregate themselves in new and
creative ways. Voters can achieve representation in ways they consider
more meaningful than the current geographically-based system," he
says. He also encourages people to visit his online voting site,
VoteSite.
- VOTESITE.COM
Note: From Issue 3.12, section "WEB SITES".
Contributing editor Marc Strassman's newest project is VoteSite.com, an online effort that's being launched to win the right to vote over the Internet. The site, a project of Strassman's Campaign for Digital Democracy, is starting its efforts in - POLLSTERS THREATENED
Note: From Issue 3.10, section "NETPULSE BRIEFS".
ONLINE VOTING UPDATE Contributing editor Marc Strassman has been making media waves in pushing online voting. "Internet voting and its cousin, digital signatures on initiative petitions, are now seen by many observers as inevitable steps in a national effort to get people back to the polls or, more accurately, to get the polls out to the people," he wrote in a May 6 article in Intellectual Capital. Also on May 6, Strassman was interviewed by IBM's Institute for Electronic Governance. The conversation is available online at: ieg.ibm.com. - ONLINE CONFERENCE
Note: From Issue 3.09, section "THE ELECTRONIC ADVOCATE".
The Initiative and Referendum Institute is a non-profit organization that
exists to educate people about the initiative and referendum processes as political options. On May 6th-8th, it will be conducting "A Century of Citizen Lawmaking: Initiative and Referendum in
Note: From Issue 3.05, section "NETPULSE BRIEFS".
In- ONLINE ELECTIONS SOON
Note: From Issue 3.03, section "NETPULSE BRIEFS".
A recent article in Governing magazine suggests that some voters in November 2000 will vote online. “The era of Internet voting will inch closer this spring when a mock election is held in Cyberspace,” Christopher Swope reported in November. “Dozens of
My complaint,
So I wrote a series of three articles about this.
Transparency: Seeing It Through, or
A Dozen Things Excellent Transparency
Should Be
By Marc Strassman
Copyright © 2002 by Marc Strassman. All rights reserved.
Now that “transparency” is all the rage for governments and corporations, it’s important to take a minute to delineate just what’s involved in making an institution truly transparent, easily visible, not camouflaged, or directly knowable by normal citizens and reporters who want to scrutinize it or just know exactly what it’s up to.
To help provide a basis upon which to judge the transparency of a city government or a big corporation, here are a dozen characteristics that any institution aspiring to transparency ought to exhibit. The information provided by an organization to establish its transparency should be:
1. Accurate
Unless the information provided is truthful and correct, it doesn’t contribute much to transparency.
2. Timely, if not Instantaneous
Data delayed is knowledge denied. To the greatest extent possible, data needs to be captured, added to the transparency data base, and made available for viewing as it is generated. This is “real-time transparency.”
3, Complete
Partial information may be worse than no information at all, especially when it creates an inaccurate picture of an important context or all the implications of some isolated facts.
4. Accessible
If citizens and the media don’t
have convenient, no-cost, readily-available access to the information that is
supposed to make an organization transparent, then that organization isn’t transparent. Universal
5.