Open Letter
2003 - Meet the Candidates Night

Announcement
Format
Open Letter
Candidate Questionnaire
Delegate Voting Guide

April 14, 2003

Dear Candidates,

My name is David Lund. I am the Director of Republicans for Civil and Informed Participation (RCIP). Over the past few days I have had the opportunity to speak with several of you regarding the published format for the "Meet the Candidates Night" tomorrow evening. These conversations have produced a number of suggestions for changes to the format that seem to be appropriate. A compromise version of these suggestions has been presented to the RCIP Executive Committee, and it has been approved unanimously by that body. The following is a list of the changes that have been approved:

1) There will be no straw poll at the end of the evening.

2) The meeting will be extended for an additional half hour, and combined with the time originally allocated for the straw poll, to be used for direct interaction between the candidates and the delegates in a "Round Robin" style mingle. Each candidate will have one minute to travel from station to station, and four minutes to speak to the delegates within each station.

3) Instead of distributing candidate ratings at the April 26th Organizing Convention, the RCIP will publish the candidate responses to the questionnaire without any kind of endorsement from our organization.

We hope that these changes come as welcome news to each of you. We also look forward to receiving your continued input as to what should be included in the questionnaire and the questions to be delivered that evening.

For those of you who have not yet responded to our invitation, it is still not too late to RSVP. We look forward to hearing from each of you.

Thank you very much for all your assistance. If you have any concerns, or if there is anything I can clarify for you, please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,

David Lund, Director
Republicans for Civil and Informed Participation (RCIP)

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