{"id":3492,"date":"2008-10-23T10:43:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T17:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3492"},"modified":"2008-10-23T10:43:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T17:43:40","slug":"final-carlsbad-candidate-forum-all-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3492","title":{"rendered":"Final Carlsbad Candidate Forum All Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/can-forum2-tm1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/can-forum2-tm1.jpg','popup','width=430,height=282,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/can-forum2-tm-tm.jpg\" height=\"282\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Can-Forum2-Tm\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder: tonight (October 23, 2008) at 5:30 at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadca.gov\/library\/newlib.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dove Library<\/a><\/strong> (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=safari&amp;rls=en-us&amp;q=1775+Dove+Lane+Carlsbad&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;um=1&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ct=title\" target=\"_blank\">1775 Dove Lane<\/a><\/strong>) all six candidates for <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> City Council will be attending their final &#8220;candidate forum.&#8221; This one sponsored by the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbad.org\/products\/productList.aspx?uid=37-251\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce<\/a><\/strong>. Here is how it is going to go down, according to Carlsbad&#8217;s Vice-President of Governmental Affairs <strong>Michael Bobawal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Candidates will be seated left to right in alpha order (Arnold, Bernard, Blackburn, Douglas, Kulchin and Rodgers).<\/li>\n<li>Each candidate will be given 90 seconds for an opening statement (starting with Arnold)<\/li>\n<li>The dais will be presented a question and each candidate will have 60 seconds to answer<\/li>\n<li>The first candidate to speak first will be rotated among the panel starting opening and ending closing statements (i.e., Arnold will start with opening statements, Bernard will start with question 1 and Rodgers will start with closing statements)<\/li>\n<li>Each candidate will be given 90 seconds for a closing statement (starting with Rodgers)<\/li>\n<li>All questions, including audience questions, will be business related<\/li>\n<li>The first hour of the program will be televised<\/li>\n<li>We will take a short break to let the camera&#8217;s stop rolling and then begin the second hour<\/li>\n<li>The second hour will take questions from the audience<\/li>\n<li>Questions will end around 7:00 p.m. allowing for 30 minutes of meet and greet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trust us, even if you don&#8217;t care all that much about City politics, these forums are great entertainment purely for spectacle. And since the topic tonight will be all business we&#8217;re thinking it&#8217;s going to be even more enlightening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder: tonight (October 23, 2008) at 5:30 at the Dove Library (1775 Dove Lane) all six candidates for Carlsbadistan City Council will be attending their final &#8220;candidate forum.&#8221; This one sponsored by the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce. Here is how it is going to go down, according to Carlsbad&#8217;s Vice-President of Governmental Affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}