New Ultra-Accessible Candidates Video Debate System Launches for All Close Senate Races
SEBASTOPOL, Calif., Oct. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, the non-profit Informing to Empower launched a vastly expanded Candidates Video Debate covering the most important races of the 2020 election. These include the Presidential and Vice Presidential contests, as well as the top eight hotly-contested Senate races for Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The format presents minute-long videos of...
Spartz, Hale square off on Sept. 22
Indiana Town Halls and WFYI Productions announced that a Fifth District Congressional Town Hall will be live streamed and broadcast on WFYI Public TV Indianapolis on Tuesday, Sept. 22 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. The most hotly contested Congressional race in Indiana features Democrat Christina Hale and Republican Victoria Spartz. They are pursuing an open seat created by the pending retirement of Republican Susan Brooks. Jim Shella, former political reporter for WISH-TV and former host of Indiana...
Hale Spartz Town Hall on WFYI Sept 22 Will Be First in the Nation to Use Crowd-Sourced Questions from Local Voters
Released: September 8, 2020 Indiana Town Halls and WFYI Productions today announced that a Fifth District Congressional Town Hall will be live streamed and broadcast on WFYI Public TV Indianapolis on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020 from 7 to 8 PM. The most hotly contested Congressional race in Indiana features Democrat Christina Hale and Republican Victoria Spartz. They are pursuing an open seat created by the pending retirement of Republican Susan Brooks. Jim Shella, former political reporter for...
Future of Democracy Video Debate Platform Debuts in Georgia and Indiana for Pandemic Era Elections
The coronavirus struck during the beginning of the primary election season and political debates were among the first events affected. Many debates were cancelled, while other important congressional debates are now being held virtually as moderated Zoom events. A ground-breaking new web platform called the Candidates Video Debate recently launched to help voters more easily access candidate videos and conveniently share them over their social networks. The “democratizing media” platform is...
Indiana Town Halls and Informing to Empower Launch Candidates Video Debate for Hotly Contested 5th District Primaries
INDIANAPOLIS, May 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- A unique collaboration between Indiana Town Halls, WFYI public television and the non-partisan, non-profit Informing to Empower today announced that Indiana's first-ever virtual congressional primary Town Hall is now viewable on the innovative new Candidates Video Debate platform. "Our focus--the suburban Indianapolis 5th District--is a purple district with no incumbent and is the first competitive Indiana congressional race in decades," stated Les...
Informing to Empower Democracy and Atlanta Press Club Launch Candidate Video Debates for 7 Georgia Congressional Primaries
ATLANTA, May 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In collaboration with the Atlanta Press Club's prestigious Loudermilk-Young Debate Series, the non-profit Informing to Empower today launched the Candidates Video Debate, a non-partisan democratizing media platform, for seven different Republican and Democratic congressional primary debates in Georgia. The innovative web format breaks existing debates into minute-long videos of every candidate answering every question asked of them and presents these in a...
New Candidates Video Debate Aims to Take Money Out of Politics
SEBASTOPOL, Calif., March 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Informing to Empower has launched the Candidates Video Debate, a non-partisan democratizing media platform. The mission of the non-profit CandidatesVideoDebate.com is to bring transparency, accountability and integrity to an electoral process now corrupted by political advertising paid for by corporate and special interest donors. Our free website does this by creating easily accessible, two-minute videos of every candidate answering every...