The Community Questionnaire

During the last election, City Council candidates received questionnaires from dozens of separate organizations.  Their answers to those questions were then posted at dozens of  separate places, if they were posted at all, making it very difficult for voters to get a consolidated view of what a candidate is all about.  This time, the Blue Line is doing it differently, making it less burdensome for the candidates and easier for  voters to get information.  The Community Questionnaire combined questions from as many local organizations as possible to cover a broad range of issues and perspectives. We received over one hundred questions from about 30 organizations (listed below).  We worked with those organizations to combine and edit the questions down to a manageable 57, about half of which are multiple choice or yes/no questions.

• Boulder County Arts Alliance
• Boulder County Audubon Society
• Boulder Decides
• Boulder Outdoor Coalition (representing Boulder Mountain Bike Alliance, Boulder Area Trails Coalition, Friends Interested in Dogs and Open Space, Boulder Trail Runners, Boulder Climbing Community, Connection Ecology, and Boulder County Horse Association)
• Boulder Weekly
• Clean Energy Action
• Community Cycles
• Community Foundation Serving Boulder County
• Crestview West
• Ecocycle
• El Centro AMISTAD
• Friends of Boulder Open Space
• Human Services Alliance
• Intercambio Uniting Communities
• Mapleton Hill Neighborhood
• McSorley/Cantebury Homeowners
• New Era Colorado
• Orchard Grove
• Out Boulder
• PLAN-Boulder County
• Prairie Dog Coalition
• Sierra Club
• University Hill Neighborhood Association

Compare Candidate Responses

Voters and organizations preparing endorsements can read and compare candidates’ responses to the Community Questionnaire.  Instead of scanning through pages and pages of multiple pdfs, select a topic of your choice and find out where a particular candidate, or all the candidates, stand on that topic.

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Candidate Fora

Kurt Nordback and Zane Selvans have written engaging accounts of the three PLAN-Boulder County Candidate Fora for the Blue Line.  The first forum featured candidates Jonathan Hondorf, Ken Wilson, Kevin Hotaling, Tim Plass and Daniel Ziskin.  The second forum had candidates Mark Gelband, George Karakehian, Suzanne Jones and Tom Johnston, and the last forum featured candidates Stephen Keenan, Lisa Morzel, Fenno Hoffman and Dan King.

Candidate Interviews

Students in instructor Christine Mahoney’s Radio/TV News Writing course (J-3604) in the newly-formed Program of Journalism and Mass Communication at CU-Boulder are writing City Council candidate interviews.   The interviews that have been received and published so far include:

Fenno Hoffman by Kathryn Goggin

Lisa Morzel by Danica Eilers

Daniel Ziskin by Courtney Bowers

Kevin Hotaling by Rose Heaphy

Jonathan Hondorf by Amanda Dovel

Suzanne Jones by Morgan Meyer

Ken Wilson by Nicole Tschetter

Dan King by Amanda Dovel

Tim Plass by Amanda Dovel

Mark Gelband by Morgan Meyer

Candidate Contact Information

Register to Vote!

Thanks to the good people at New Era Colorado, you may register to vote or update your registration via a link right here on the Blue Line.  Just click this button and follow the few simple steps.

In the interest of full disclosure, several members of the Blue Line board of directors are also volunteers on various 2011 municipal campaigns.  The Blue Line does not endorse candidates or ballot issues.