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By JonC (registered) | Posted August 18, 2009 at 11:34:45

Thanks Cal, I know that makes for a more challenging interview (for the interviewer). The ability to follow up is removed and if questions are a little too pressing, the interviewee can just not mail back. I do stand by my previous comments on the Chapman question, but I can see how you may have to frame it that way to receive any sort of response. It also puts the onus on the interviewee to expand on a topic fully enough (the responses I was more interested in were the more expansive answers). I was going to cross post the below to your blog, but it looks like that isn't a possibility.

The one item I think mayor Di Ianni could do some self-reflection on would be "Only my detractors thought I was being heavy handed". One typically wouldn't have their supporters calling them heavy-handed. "There were community groups and individuals who criticized me for [driving agendas] but only because they disagreed with the agenda of support for jobs and businesses in my estimation". While job creation is certainly an important responsibility for mayors, that agenda does need to be weighed against other competing agendas, and all parties weigh the agendas differently. The heavy handedness is a result of being unwilling to review one's own weightings, and that goes for parties strongly affiliated with any agenda.

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