On the heels of our announcement that
two regular dKos bloggers will be participating in our state Democratic Party Platform Content Committee, we've got another cool announcement to make.
On Monday, August 28th at 12:00 noon, Green Mountain Daily will host Vermont's first online political candidate debate between the Democratic primary candidates for Lieutenant Governor, Representative John Patrick Tracy of Burlington and Senator Matt Dunne of Hartland. The debate will be held in a live chat room linked from the GMD front page, with comments from viewers in a parallel live-blogging thread.
Yours truly will be moderating, and GMD front pagers Jack McCullough and Vermonter will be on site with the candidates for the duration of the debate.
Details on the format and updates will be forthcoming between now and the 28th. As you can imagine, we're pretty excited. Mark your calendars and bring a bag lunch to work!
We're keeping it strictly low-tech - just a chatroom with a parallel thread - but in the future (assuming this goes well), who knows?
I'm sure this is hardly the first time something like this has been done, so I'd love to hear from the collective memory/awareness out there of other attempts at such a format and how it went. Why re-invent the wheel, after all?