More damage control
Wow ... Winders is right on ... this is a big mess-up on Charlie Maddox's campaign's part. Just when he was starting to put together a decent week of damage control as well as a coherent message, something like this pops up.
posted by Jmac at 9:21 AM
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Attention: All five people reading this. If you have a "F the president" or "No Bushit" bumpersticker on your car, please report to The Athens Banner Herald for re-education.
Honestly, is this petty parlor trick all the ABH has left? So some freinds swapped funny ads about Charlie. Is dissention only cool if it helps your cause.
Yeah. You people sure are progressives.
The ABH and its corporate parent is not exactly known as liberal. Quite the opposite. Although I suppose posting anonymously removes any limitations facts may otherwise put on your comments.
Darren
They were funny ads about Heidi, not Charlie. They were, so Winders says, forwarded out from Charlie's own staff. "On company letterhead", so to speak.
I think the larger point is not that people tell jokes about other people, but rather that someone in the campaign staff disseminated these jokes into the community in a juvenile way, a campaign staff who seems lately to be operating without guidance and leadership from Maddox, a candidate whose main message is that he will bring guidance and leadership to office. The point is not the particular political persuasion of conservatives or Republicans, but that a candidate who is running on a platform of leadership has a campaign staff who seem to lack guidance about what is tactful and appropriate. Nobody is a leader telling people what to put as bumper stickers on their own cars. There is a someone who has direct and immediate leadership of what his campaign staff should consider as representative of the candidate's image. It's not about people sharing jokes that we recognize as tactless—part of making a joke to cajole a person is about lacking a certain propriety, as Chuck and some of the other four readers demonstrate—but it's about how this is all situated in a campaign of leadership.
Either he leads his staff and this reflects what he thinks is funny or worth public attention, or his staff is not being lead appropriately. Either speaks about the kind of leader he is. That is Winders' point, I take it.
Of course, good and witty humor probably would have been more appropriate. Humor is difficult like that, again, as some of the five regularly demonstrate.
Technically I average about 150 visits and close to 370 page views a day, but fair enough.
The parent company of the ABH is decidedly conservative. The ABH is anything but. Boss Hogg and his poison pen are flaming.
The bumper stickers are pretty funny if you don't take the races too seriously.
This is a really stupid issue. Charlie's campaign people are all volunteers. To think he polices everything they do or, that everything they do on their own is somehow with his blessing and approval is simply wrong.
The blogs are filled with salacious and unsubstantiated content from ABH staffers. So which is it? Does the ABH formally stand with it's people when they make political views known on the web or is Jason Winders a sorry leader incapable of controlling his staff?
The fact that this attempted political opinion and expression control is coming from people who call themselves Democrats is the biggest joke of all. If you get your feelings hurt because someone made a goofy joke about your candidate, get over it. If you want to pretend you support freedom of expression of your political views, you cannot try to restrict it to simply the views you support.
if you can't control a room full of volunteers you shouldn't run a city.
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