If you’ve participated in a Michigan’s Defining Moment Community Conversation, we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Margaret Dwyer and Dwayne Sanders. Monday night, at the Royal Oak Public Library, Dr. Dwyer and Mr. Sanders were among those who pushed us over our long-sought goal of 10,000 Community Conversation participants!!!
To all who have participated, we say THANK YOU FOR TAKING UP THE IMPORTANT DUTIES OF CITIZENSHIP IN A TIME WHEN YOUR STATE VERY MUCH NEEDS YOUR INPUT!
Now, it’s up for the Center for Michigan staff to measure the people’s hard work, tally the public will from all those “clicker” votes, and work tirelessly to assure leaders in Lansing take up the vision you have all crafted for our state’s future.
Based on the conclusions of the nearly 500 Community Conversations citizens have held since fall 2007, we will issue a final “Common Ground Agenda for Michigan’s Future” report in early May, as candidates for governor and legislature must officially file for office.
All of you will be the first to receive that report. Then the Center for Michigan will offer you several ways to act on the agenda you are creating, including:
1. Meeting in person or writing to candidates to urge them to take up the MDM agenda.
2. Using online tools to spread, in a matter of seconds, the MDM report to as many contacts as you can to help assure your work becomes a dominant theme of the 2010 statewide elections.
3. Watching televised candidate debates where the MDM agenda will be discussed.
4. Spreading online petitions for specific policy recommendations arising out of the Community Conversations.
5. Watchdogging politicians by informing the Center for Michigan’s team of journalists of hyper-partisan and inaccurate campaign ads during the 2010 election.
Participants in the Michigan’s Defining Moment Public Engagement Campaign have already had a significant impact on the actions of our elected leaders.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I only found out about MDM this month, I believe its a great idea & feel it has a excellant base to help correct Michigan. Would like to help & do more. jsf
Congratulations on your attendance and convergence milestone.
Who said U.S. civil society has its collective head in the sand?
It’s a Big Deal when people come out to MDM’s conscious-raising events especially when the weather is often less than favorable. (I’ve seen recent photos of waist-high, lake-effect snowfall in West Michigan from my perch in Houston.)
I will continue to watch and pray for Michigan to rebound.
Keep up the good work — and that’s an order!
Cheers,
Craig
Very impressive. Congratulations Getting 10,000 Michigan residents to participate in these meetings was an amazing accomplishment.
It is important to publish what you found out from your 10,000 participants. I will be waiting for the final report. I participated in a forum last July, and would like to find out how others responded.