Stolen campaign signs hurt grassroots campaigns
I hate to complain about stolen campaign signs because it’s little more than fodder for reporters looking for a quick, easy story during the campaign season. Stolen signs happen to every candidate from every party for every position, but it really hurts grassroots campaigns like Mike McGonegal’s that rely on small donations from loyal supporters. They really feel the pain.
For campaigns like Chris Ward’s - that has more than $11,000 cash on hand with lots more special interest cash expected to flow in before November - it’s no problem; that buys a lot of campaign signs. Really, that’s what his campaign is really about, and his constituents are the moneyed special interests, not the residents of the 66th District.
One of the most galling incidents of stolen signs recently occurred in downtown Brighton. After obtaining permission from a business owner near busy Grand River Avenue and Challis Road, the owners of the property he leased the business owner leased the property from took them because he was holding a fundraiser for Ward.
That kind of says it all when you talk about the kind of campaign Ward will run. There will be plenty of fundraisers and special interest money. We can expect to see a few slick mailing produced by expensive marketing firms. You have about as much a chance of Ward showing up at your door to ask for your opinion and vote as you have of winning $50 million in the Michigan lottery and getting hit by lighting the next day.
posted by Communications guru @ 12:39 PM
2 Comments:
You’re right Wilber, stealing is stealing. Again, you’re right that it doesn’t matter a whole lot how much money a candidate has, but when you consider that all we hear is how this is a conservative, republican controlled county, then why do you have to steal the signs of a grassroots Democrat? If you have so much money and support then why not just blanket the county with your own signs?
Why not raise the minimum wage to $20? Simple, it’s too much. The minimum wage has not increased in 10 years, but everything else has. If it increased at the same rate as that of CEO compensation it would be well over $20 an hour. The end result will not be a loss of jobs. A rise in the minimum wage has never resulted in a loss of jobs.
I’m not attacking anyone on dan’s site and if fact the opposite is true. I have never heard of you or engaged you in debate, but you chose to call me a “looney liberal. I have been personally attacked numerous times there, but rarely has anyone refuted my positions because they can’t. I call him and you on the misinformation posted there. I did it well before I started this blog, and I will continue to do so.
Sorry, Wilbur, Oil company CEOs are raking in obscene amounts of cash while the rest of us struggle to fill our tanks at more than $3 a gallon. That is not a liberal fallacy, it’s a fact. According to an ABC report on April 14, Lee Raymond, the retiring CEO of Exxon Oil, received one of the most generous retirement packages in history, nearly $400 million, including pension, stock options and other perks, such as a $1 million consulting deal, two years of home security, personal security, a car and driver, and use of a corporate jet for professional purposes.
According to Forbes magazine of April 26, CEOs of the top 500 companies received an average pay raise of 54 percent ion 2004.
The minimum wage has not been increased in more than a decade. Is that fair?
The richer are getting richer, the poor and getting poorer, and the middle class is disappearing.
This is from a July 26 column by respected journalist in Jack Lessenberry, where he talks about the fact the poor are getting poorer.
“Back in 1989, the poorest half of the population had only 3 percent of all the nation's wealth.
Now, that's down to an even stingier 2.5 percent. Half the population, in other words, gets 97.5 percent of all the stuff. The rest get the sweat off the back of George Bush's faithful Christian hand.
But the real winners are the wealthiest 1 percent, who account for exactly a third of all the nation's net worth, a figure that is growing. Every year they get a little more of it; the rest of America, a little less.
That wasn't always the case. From 1947 to the 1970s, "all income groups shared in the nation's economic growth— and poor families actually had a higher growth rate in real annual income."
Unions helped then. But then that trend started to reverse — a pattern that is now continuing with a vengeance. And the policies of George W. Bush are guaranteed to keep things this way.”
There has been no case of job loss because of increasing the minimum wage, and that money will be injected right back into the economy. Whether or not Rush Limbaugh only has half a brain or not, I don’t really know or care.
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