AIG to respond to our questions

Last night, I wrote a post about an exchange I'd had with AIG media relations representative Peter Tulupman. In that post, I invited the Daily Kos community to submit questions to AIG about the financial bailout the corporation had received from the government. After going through the questions last night, I submitted the bulk of them to Mr Tulupman and received the following reply this morning:

Susan:

Given the volume of questions you submitted (there are about 50 in this note), and I believe that there are several hundred comments about this posting, would it be amenable for you, or the Daily Kos community as a whole, to select the ten questions that they would most like answered. By offering the community the opportunity to select the questions we will be able to remain fully transparent.

AIG is interested in starting a long-term conversation/relationship the Daily Kos readers, and that this will by no means be our last outreach.

Let me know your thoughts.

Thank you.

-Peter

Throughout the day today, I've been winnowing down the questions a bit so that there are fewer repeats, and Mr. Tulupman and I have corresponded about the mode of answering them and the timing. We're working out a schedule and hope to be able to post some of AIG's reponses to some of the queries later this week.

I tried to devise a method in which the community could vote for the questions, but decided instead to try and narrow it myself in the interests of expediency. When the answers are posted, I'm sure we'll have an opportunity for follow-up questions or to resubmit questions I missed that the community strongly feels should be answered.

I want to point out to Daily Kos users this is an interesting interaction we're trying here, with ordinary Americans getting the ear of a major corporation directly, and it couldn't be done without the high quality of questions submitted and the flexibility of Mr. Tulupman--and the time he's putting in to try and make it work.