...If you live of PI, Moon Mining and reactions, if you set up an invention POS and live of research and T2 invention, if you manufacture something: IGÇÖm the perfect candidate for you to vote for, I know and share your problems. I will fight for you, I will fight for us and our common interests!...

At this time I would like to ask the candidates to think carefully about any endorsements that they give.

By putting other candidates on your ballot you are effectively giving them any excess votes you may have if you become elected or all of your votes if you are knocked out of the election.

So the choice of who you endorse and in what order you endorse them on your proposed ballot is very important.

Remember that these people are voting for you and a lot of people will rely on your proposed ballot.

I have a quick question, which I hope you do not think is rude, because that is by no means the intention of it.

As you are through to the next round, where we have to select a number of candidates based on our order of preference, I was wondering if you could clarify the following for me:

You stated that you are a non-bloc candidate, and I realise you are running as an independent, however, you are a member of Goonswarm Federation, and as such, have the potential to be included on their bloc listing.

I intend to vote so that the non-bloc candidates which I support have the highest listings on my preferences (In all honesty, there are not many industrial candidates, so you will be fairly near the top either way), so I was wondering if you could let us know whether you are aware if you are on the bloc-voting list. I know there are many many null focused candidates, so it could be that you are way down their listing due to your lower focus on PvP/Sov.

I apologize for the crappy way in which I am phrasing this question, but, basically, I want to ensure that my votes are as useful as possible, and if you are already a shoe-in, then whilst I will still have you fairly high on my list, I would prefer my first few place votes to go to others, so that we get the most versatile CSM possible.

This sounds like I am not going to vote for you, that is not the case, I very much like your platform, but want to ensure the other indy or new player or whatever non-pvp/SOV candidates get a decent look-in.

God I suck at posting.

Thanks in advance for your answer,

Madeline

Ignore Industrialists: In an alliance or corporation, industrialists are completely irrelevant and should never be allowed a voice in anything. Sound extreme? It isnGÇÖt. An industrialist is not a logistician, but a GÇÿproducerGÇÖ. Producers live in hisec in countless numbers, and anything that is built there can simply be imported from Jita with a jump freighter - by a logistician. Logisticians matter in alliances; so do financiers, diplomats, and most of all warriors. Producers do not. There has never been a war in the history of EVE which was won by an advantage in local production; the hobbits of ASCN believed their own propaganda and assured each other that production mattered, but they were crushed utterly by Band of Brothers. Take after the words of House Greyjoy: GÇÿWe Do Not SowGÇÖ. Be particularly wary of capital/supercapital producers, who are often wealthy and consider themselves to be above alliance rules. Alliances have no need of GÇÿindustrial wingsGÇÖ, GÇÿindustrial directorsGÇÖ - none of it.

I don't have access or talk with leadership of my alliance. Any information I have is by talking with one of my corp directors, he is my point of contact when I have questions. I only talk with him 3 times about my candidacy, one was when I decided to run, I didn't want to cause a problem to my corp so I ask them if it was ok, if the alliance will not create them problems.
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... and The Mittani hates industrialists, he even post that 2 days ago:
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I run as an independent, my alliance doesn't support me. My platform is industry, my love is industry, I want the best for all. I want to fight and defend industry in the CSM, I don't care if it is high-sec, low-sec or null-sec.

Man, I know sov null-sec is serious spaceship biz, but I'd be f-ing leaving if I got devalued like that. Don't know why you put up with it.

Either way, industrialists *do* matter, they should have a voice, and I'm putting you somewhere in my top 2-5.

Please don't take conclusions about things I didn't said or implied.

In any large organization there is an hierarchy / chain of command.

My apologies, looks like I didn't quote the right part. I'm more concerned with how industry players don't matter to them.

You're on my slate, though lower than you would have been had it not been for the major null-sec voting plan.

industry players don't matter to them.