NYC Mayor Race Count Down: Day 6 - Jackie Salit Independence Party Rally for Adolfo Carrion - What's Lou Reed Got to Do With It?

[UPDATED due to uploading 'glitches'....] In this video, from the October Adolfo Carrion Independence Party Rally, Jackie Salit, President of IndependentVoting.org, the national center for independent nonpartisan political reform, notes that rock n roll legend, American music innovator, Lou Reed's seminal Velvet Underground album sold 30,000 copies (puny by today's standards, no doubt), but that everyone who bought a copy formed a band.

We're forming bands. It's 1776 in New York City. Take a walk on the wild side!
Get your band together!

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[Video by Coco Cheung]

Americans Elect Could Help Produce Innovative Political Solutions

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Alternative Presidential Convention Emerges Online (Written by Michael Mascioni, Internet Evolution) One of the key shortcomings of the Presidential political campaign is the limited exposure given by the national media to truly innovative political solutions and politicians. In this light, it would be particularly helpful if Americans Elect afforded users a greater opportunity to explore and contribute to such solutions.

Michael Bloomberg: Why Government Doesn't Innovate

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What's Next For Michael Bloomberg (By: Sridhar Pappu, Fast Company) "Innovation--the essence of innovation--is you don't know what you're going to build, what it's going to be called, how much it's going to cost. You cannot use public monies unless you can answer virtually every one of those questions, which is why government tends not to innovate. The public wants that accountability in advance, that justification in advance. But that's not going to work for certain things."