Can our party pick your brain?

[Michael Allan]

Welcome to the list Kevin,

Without slighting the aims of your initiative, I doubt that a
political party is a feasible vehicle for achieving them.  Maybe I'm
wrong here, but I disagree with Rohan.  I don't think it can work, at
least not in that form.

A party candidate must first win office, if I understand.  Let's say
she is elected to Queen's Park where she sits as an MPP for one of the
Toronto ridings.  Suppose that a particular issue subsequently arises
in the legislature, and the party members reach a rough consensus on a
course of action.  The MPP is now expected to follow that course of
action?  Is that how it should work?

-- 
Michael Allan

Toronto, +1 416-699-9528
http://zelea.com/


Rohan Jayasekera wrote:
> I'm only an "interested onlooker" of Votorola, so Kevin Morais's
> request for more knowledgeable feedback still stands.  I'd like to
> make a comment in passing.  I've just been to the site that he's
> created, and have learned that the Transparency Party's plan is to
> make direct democracy come about by electing candidates who then
> "follow the orders" of the party members who vote online with respect
> to each upcoming bill.  I find this very exciting because it might
> work.  It doesn't try to change a political structure that is
> resistant to the idea of its own elimination (a weakness of most
> proposals I see for reforming democracy), and it provides a gathering
> point for the "early adopters" who are a necessary step in
> transforming any isolated interest into widespread adoption.  Perhaps
> the route of the Transparency Party is obvious to other members of
> this group who are more actively involved; it wasn't to me.