Suggest Questions to a Panel of Mayoral Candidates being held on Tuesday, August 11th

For all the non-billionaire mayoral candidates, it’s been a bit of an effort to get any attention from media and voters (the one exception being, perhaps, the Naked Cowboy). Here’s your chance to ask some of the mayoral candidates a question. This event brought to you by, and soul-lessly linkedjacked from, the Manhattan Young Democrats.

MYD is teaming up with Living Liberally and Democracy for New York City to host our 2009 Mayoral Forum on August 11th at The Tank (354 W. 45th St). The doors will open at 6:30, and each candidate will be grilled one at a time.As usual, MYD gives you the hookup: YOU PICK THE QUESTIONS!

(Note: the link above leads to a crowdsourcing tool called Ideascale. You submit an ‘idea’, or in this case, a question, and it gets voted up or down by others, thereby leveraging the genius of the collective MYD ‘crowd’. We’ll use the top questions in the forum, so please start submitting now!)

This election is going to be one of the hardest fought in the history of New York City. We have a sitting Republican-in-Independent-clothing Mayor who changed the law on term limits and is pumping $100 Million of his own money into a shot at a third term. We’re the generation that elected President Obama – we don’t sit idly by and let this effective purchasing of the electorate to go by unchallenged! We make things happen. Our responsibility now is to choose the best Democrat and put everything we’ve got into getting them elected. So come on out, decide the questions, grill the candidates, and when it’s all over, volunteer for the best one.

No, the Naked Cowboy didn’t meet our high invitation standards, and Mayor Bloomberg declined but thanked us for the invitation. To clarify, if you’re a registered Democrat, you’ll be deciding between Thompson and Avella in the September 15th Primary. Be sure to visit our voting toolkit if you need to verify or change your registration. To see what we’ve written about the mayoral race so far, go here.