Boehner To Engage In 'Digg Dialogue'
House Minority Leader John Boehner will take part in a "Digg Dialogg" interview Friday with CNN Political Editor Mark Preston, answering the most popular questions posed by visitors to Digg.com, a platform for Internet users to submit links and stories and vote and comment on submitted items. A spokesman for Boehner's political action committee said that for the next two years, "the key weapon in the GOP arsenal will be communication" and his boss is working hard to make sure his message of freedom and reform reaches the widest audience possible.
"He has always been an early adopter of new technologies and new opportunities to reach voters in unique ways, and the Digg Dialogg is no exception," Don Seymour said in a press release. "The online community targeted by this event is inherently entrepreneurial, solutions-driven, and skeptical of one-size-fits-all approaches -- a natural constituency for the Republican Party." Boehner's Digg Dialogg page -- and the questions that have been submitted so far -- can be viewed here.
The must "dugg" topics include:
"Why is it that drugs (alcohol, tobacco) that kill thousands of people each year are legal, yet other drugs (marijuana) which are used for medical purposes and do far less harm and don't cause death, are illegal?"
"How can the Republican Party reclaim its old positions of small government, low taxes, and personal responsibility?"
"Why should I, a responsible homeowner who pays her mortgage every month, help foot the bill for those who acted irresponsibly, getting way in over their heads, borrowing money that they had no business borrowing?"
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