SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 4, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Politic 2.0, a Salt Lake City-based company harnessing the power of the Internet to connect citizens with politics, will be hosting a Salt Lake City mayoral debate live on the Internet. The campaigns of Jenny Wilson, Ralph Becker, Keith Christensen, and JP Hughes have all confirmed their participation in the real-time web-based forum called ConventionNEXT.
The event will be held on August 8, 2007 at the Salt Lake City Main Library Auditorium from 7:45 to 9:15PM.
Before and during the event, residents of Salt Lake City are encouraged to register at www.politic20.com, submit questions for one or all the candidates, vote on which questions should be asked, and evaluate the answers given by the campaigns.
Bloggers in the Salt Lake City area will be in the auditorium to submit initial questions and will be able to comment in real-time to the answers given by the candidates. Residents can do the same at home or at work from the comfort of their own computer. Therefore, ConventionNEXT will be unlike traditional political forums or the recent CNN/YouTube Democratic Presidential Primary Debate, giving online participants the final decision, responsibility, and power to direct and moderate the conversation.
The primary election for the Salt Lake City mayoral election will be held on Tuesday, September 11 and the general election will be held on Tuesday, November 6.
Matt Moon, Chief Political Officer at Politic 2.0, described the company's history: "Created in April 2007, Politic 2.0 was born out of the frustration of voters around the nation on two different levels. First, voters have become increasingly disillusioned with politicians and traditional media outlets in getting substantive information about policy issues. Voters have also been frustrated because more people use the Internet to find political information, yet find that the information they want is hard to locate, disorganized, and biased. Along with ConventionNEXT, Politic 2.0 will be rolling out other web-based interactive initiatives that will connect citizens across the political spectrum to the world of politics and policy."
If your publication, news station, talk show, or other media organization would like to receive a press pass to the event or to interview an employee of Politic 2.0, please call Matt Moon, Chief Political Officer, at (907) 830-5122 or email him at moon@politic20.com.
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