I have enjoyed listening to the Ernest Hancock interview of Melinda Pillsbury-Foster and Jim Davidson greatly. This is the first 40 minutes of the Friday, July 27, 2018 show. The rest of show features Christina Tobin and then Chris Duane. Please consider supporting this worthwhile project.
What really happened in 1992 – Not Perot or Clinton - but PhoneVoter and the power of Volitional Science
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster A small group of Voluntarists were persuaded by Brock d’Avignon, another Volitional Scientist, to spend time working feverishly on a plan to persuade candidates for President of the United States to sign up for FREE satellite time and participate in a Presidential Debate Tournament. Sixty-fpur Americans had signed up to run for president in 1992 and most of them remained unknown then and now. These stalwart Voluntarists included Samuel E. Konkin, III, Bill Cousert, Ron Fink, Howard Hinman, Robert d'Avignon and Lawrence Samuels and Kent Hastings. PhoneVoter was a business plan aimed at inserting interaction and dialog into political action and so catapulting candidates, and their ideas, characters, values and such, into public view. Of the 64 presidential hopefuls only four candidates responded to multiple offerings of the proposals and the determined calls made by Brock d’Avignon, who at first had ...
This was even more enjoyable a second time.
ReplyDeleteAwesome article and info, Jim!
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