It was announced originally by the Admins., and mentioned several times since, who comprises the committee. I believe it was also covered by Laurie in her post. The email which was sent to the candidates also contains the same information regarding the committee members. The original announcement from Saturday is below. Margery Golant [ SHOWGSD-L ] CANDIDATES' FORUM AND NATIONAL BLOG From: Showgsd-l Administration <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:44:41 -0400 A month or so ago, as it has done many times in the past, Showgsd-l began a Candidates' Forum project, to assist those GSDCA members who will be voting in the upcoming GSDCA election to know something substantive about the people running for GSDCA office. This is a tradition that is almost as old as the List, since our primary objective is, and always has been, to support the Fancy and to promote communication. We have always taken pains to assure that the Candidates' Forum is done in a fair and non-partisan way, and it has always been handled by a committee of volunteers. We received very positive feedback from Club members, with requests that we do it again this year. This year's election is especially unusual given the large number of people on the ballot, emphasizing the importance of providing voters with a substantive basis for decision-making among candidates. The committee of volunteers handling the project this year is Peggy Mickelson, Pat Galambos and Ileana Nogueras. We thank them for all their hard work, past, present and future, in making this happen. Acting completely independently of the List Management, the committee prepared a Candidates' Questionnaire, to be made available to all who are on the 2005 GSDCA ballot. Once they have received the candidates' responses, they intend to collate the responses in a tabular format, so that it will be straightforward for readers to see the responses by each candidate to each question, and then provided to Showgsd-l for posting on its web site, which is exactly how this has always been done in the past. In order to facilitate putting the responses into a table, they have placed a word limit on the answers, since large numbers of candidates and long responses would make a table impossible to construct. In response to requests that the material not be made public, and that it be available to all GSDCA members, the plan is to post it in a password-protected area, and to provide the password only to GSDCA members. The Showgsd-l Administration has also offered the GSDCA Board the prerogative to also post a link to that material from the Members' Only secured area of the GSDCA site, which could remain there until the balloting deadline has passed. The effect of this would be that GSDCA members could go to the GSDCA Members' Only area, enter their passwords, and then access the questions and answers there. The intention of this offer is to facilitate access for all GSDCA members, whether they are familiar with the Showgsd-l site or not. The Showgsd-l Administration is pleased to continue the tradition of serving as a resource for the North American Fancy and furthering its primary objective of promotion of communication among the fancy ad the Parent Clubs (GSDCA and GSDCC). In furtherance of these same objectives, Showgsd-l is also pleased to again provide the Evan Ginsburg's National Commentary via the National Blog. The Showgsd-l Administration admin@xxxxxxxxxxx ============================================================ From: PAGAIRS@xxxxxxx Date: 2005/09/26 Mon PM 01:05:18 EDT To: mgolant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, rivendellp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: questionaire for GSDCA candidates In a message dated 9/26/2005 11:50:59 AM Central Daylight Time, mgolant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: For questions, I'd suggest emailing them directly, at gsdcacandidates@xxxxxxxxx - I'm sure they'll be happy to answer all questions. Would it be possible to put names to "they'll"...I think the candidates would like to know whom they are talking to. Patty Szymczak ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. 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