Chatting with Al Taubenberger (The Next Mayor)

I just got back from the Daily News where Republican nominee for mayor, Al Taubenberger, conducted a live web chat with participants. There was a good mix of questions including several that had been emailed to us in advance. Al was able to get to 17 different questions in the hour he was with us and he said that he enjoyed the experience very much.

I was a little disappointed that more people didn't take the opportunity to try and get to know Al Taubenberger, "the guy," instead of just treating him like Al Taubenberger, "the candidate." There's still a lot that we have learn about this guy and in the future (and he said he'd welcome the chance to do this again), I hope we get questions that probe a little deeper into his personality and leadership style.

Anyway, you'll find an unedited version of the chat here. Start at the bottom and work your way up. Wendy is working on pairing up the questions with the answers in a more coherent fashion. I'm working on a web-only radio (webdio?) piece about both Nutter's and Taubenberger's experience. Check back here later today and tomorrow for those pieces.

PS. A reminder: here are the edited and unedited transcripts of the Michael Nutter web chat. We welcome your thoughts in the comments, especially if you participated in either of the chats. We'd like to know what we can do better to make these events both more entertaining and informative.