{"id":3439,"date":"2011-01-28T02:26:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T07:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/framingham.com\/news\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2011-01-28T03:17:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T08:17:13","slug":"call-for-candidate-position-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2011\/01\/28\/politics\/call-for-candidate-position-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Candidate Position Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3443\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mystey-man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3443\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3443\" title=\"Framingham candidates invited to submit postions, bios, election info.\" src=\"http:\/\/framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/mystey-man.jpg\" alt=\"Framingham candidates invited to submit postions, bios, election info.\" width=\"209\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Help Framingham voters get to know who you are what your postions are.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> - Candidates for the upcoming 2011 Framingham Annual Town Election are invited to submit position papers including a brief bio and other info related to their candidacy which will be published in a special<em> Election 2011<\/em> section of this website.<\/p>\n<p>While many candidates could write a short novel about any single issue they are passionate about, we are asking that \"positions\" be simply stated, e.g.- \"<em>For city form of government<\/em>\", \"<em>Against legalized hemp production<\/em>\", \"<em>For removing dams and letting Sudbury River clean itself<\/em>\", etc.<\/p>\n<p>Info should be the equivalent of one 8 1\/2\" x 14, \"legal size\" typewritten page PLUS one<!--more--> photo and be submitted via email to: <a href=\"mailto:office@framingham.com\">office@framingham.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There will be plenty of time and room to go into details as each candidates page will have a comment and reply section where the public may comment or ask questions and the candidates (and others) can reply.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Basic info to include:<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>candidate name, address, any desired contact info<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>office you're running for<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>number of years you've lived in Framingham<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>area of town \/ neighborhood you live in (and\/or precinct number)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>your position(s) \/ platform \/ statement [and\/or] bullet list of issues and reasons to vote for you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>current, past or planned future associations, affiliations, \"interests\", etc (that voters should know about)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>if you are a Framingham property owner, business owner, parent of school age kids, etc.<br \/>\nother \/ personal interests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>anything else you can fit on (1)\u00a0 8 1\/2\" x 14\" page....<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>(1) photo <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">(in addition to above page<\/span>), .JPG preferred, will attempt to use any image format.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Info can be submitted as plain text in the body of email, or as a word-processing file attached to the email, (MS-Word, OpenOffice, Wordperfect and most other popular formats).<\/p>\n<p>We will publish (1) page for each candidate listed as a verified candidate by the Town Clerk's office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8211; Candidates for the upcoming 2011 Framingham Annual Town Election are invited to submit position papers including a brief bio and other info related to their candidacy which will be published in a special Election 2011 section of this website. While many candidates could write a short novel about any single issue they are passionate&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2011\/01\/28\/politics\/call-for-candidate-position-papers\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1333,1512,1550,59,34,1328,1551,159,1552,876,877,426],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-1333","tag-2011-election","tag-annual-town-election","tag-candidates","tag-framingham","tag-framingham-election","tag-framingham-selectmen","tag-news","tag-postions","tag-tm","tag-tmm","tag-town-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}