Don’t miss a word of this gubernatorial campaign
By Josh Richman
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 at 11:09 am in 2010 governor's race, Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman.
California Watch – the nonprofit investigative reporting team based at the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley – yesterday launched Politics Verbatim, a new website that will track every quote, promise and statement made by California’s two major-party gubernatorial candidates, Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman. The idea is to let users sort the candidates’ statements by various categories and issues so that they can track where the campaigns are going, and hold the next governor accountable for his or her words. Check it out.
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June 22nd, 2010 at 12:43 pm
That’s great, but my concern is tracking the real issues that they will not be addressing in any meaningful way. How about listing each week the things they did not talk about or for which they did not offer specific ideas and solutions? The media should not let these too skate through the campaign just throwing attack ads at each other. How will what they propose in specific terms (if anything) make the state attractive for economic growth, solvent and more governable? Which sacred cow but wrong-headed Republican thinking and interests will Meg Whitman challenge? Same for Jerry Brown on the Democratic side. In debates, if they even happen, the media should retain format control and keep following up on specific questions until they get real responses, instead of just moving on to the next question.
June 22nd, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Rots o’ ruck with that one, John W!
June 22nd, 2010 at 6:06 pm
All you need to know about this effort is the name of the group:
Center for Investigative Reporting in BERKELEY
Any guesses as to their politics?
June 23rd, 2010 at 1:04 am
Elwood, you’re right about the rots of ruck comment. But it needs to be said.
Common Tater. I don’t care if CIR is a branch of Code Pink, which they’re not. What they are setting out to do is right on. As the ability of newspapers to do investigative reporting has declined due to economics of the business, nonprofit pools have been forming around the country to pick up the slack. I, for one, am grateful for that. And, by the way, BANG has managed to keep up local investigative reporting to a greater extent than the other paper across the bay. Kudos!