Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on May 22, 2012
As if the first 1 wasn’t bad enough another “Budget Watchdogs” piece arrived in the mail later last week. It might actually be worse than the one I posted yesterday.
The slate mail business is going to slowly start to disappear here very shortly, for a number of reasons. Initiatives being moved to November will make it almost impossible in a June election. Also it is clear that with so many new slates arriving voters do not trust these advertisements anymore.
Here is the piece:
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Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on May 22, 2012
Chris Nguyen did an excellent job covering the Central Committee meeting from last night from his BlackBerry (Yes, I have told him to grow up and get an iPhone). He will likely be taking the day off today from blogging to rest his thumbs. I will try to pick up the slack a bit and write about a lesser noticed item from last nights meeting.
This blog has been a bit rough on Travis Allen over the past few weeks but he will be happy to know that he is going to be getting some positive press here. It appears that he has sent out a mail piece to AD 72 voters and left a copy of the pieces on chairs at the meeting last night.
It is actually one of the better pieces that I have seen so far this election:
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Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on May 21, 2012
This slate mail piece arrived in the mail last week called “Budget Watchdogs.” It used to go by the name “California Voter Guide” when it went out in previous years and I must say that I am not impressed. Tim Carey charges an arm and a leg for his slates and they appear to get worse every election.
Form your own opinion on it:
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Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on May 14, 2012
Apparently the Mary Young for Central Committee fundraiser that I mentioned earlier raised enough money for her to run a Central Committee mailer.The good news for me (living in AD 68) is that AD 68 is not the only Central Committee race to have been taken over by insanity. I am still waiting on those TV commercials to start popping up:
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Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on May 14, 2012
Some people like slate mailers and others don’t, I would argue that most voters don’t know that candidates actually pay to get onto them. Slate mailers used to be a lot more effective in the past when very few of them existed back in the days of Willie Brown. With over 30 slate mailers available for purchase just in Orange County, it is tough to get a clear and consistent message across to voters.
We are posting our first slate mailer that has gone out and it comes from Landslide Communications run by former Dana Point Councilman Jim Lacy. The first of his slate mailers to go out is the National Tax Limitation Committee Newsletter:
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Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on May 14, 2012
Things just get crazier and crazier in the Central Committee races. We have seen the following so far:
1) Central Committee Fundraiser for Mary Young candidate for AD 73 Central Committee.
2) Central Committee Signs for Noel Stone Parrish candidate for AD 68 Central Committee.
3) Hit piece by Todd Spitzer against Deborah Pauly in the AD 68 Central Committee race.
Apparently AD 68 wins as the wildest and craziest race as a reader has just sent us another mailer that has been sent out in the AD 68 Central Committee race. This time Lake Forest City Councilman Scott Voigts is in the mail with the following piece.
I guess having a handful of candidates that are elected officials will make any race more interesting, but this AD 68 Central Committee race is just bizarre. Candidates are pouring in a decent amount of money to try to win one of the six seats available.
Voigts is positioning himself well as he also appeared on the National Tax Limitation Committee Slate Mailer which I will post later on this evening.
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Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on May 14, 2012
Since I already ran the endorsements sent out from the Lincoln Club, I thought that I would also take the time to publish the CRA newsletter that just came out with their list of endorsements. In the newsletter our very own Chris Nguyen got a shout out from Celeste Greig for being “A brilliant young man.” Hopefully this does not go to his head. (Full Disclosure: Custom Campaigns is the lead consultant on the Hammond and Williams races for County Board of Education)
Here are the endorsements:
| CRA ENDORSED CANDIDATES (As of 4/23/12) | |
| U.S. Senate: | Al Ramirez |
| U.S. Congress: | CD 39 Ed Royce CD 46 Jerry Hayden CD 48 Dana Rohrabacher CD 49 Darrell Issa |
| State Senate: | SD 29 Robert “Bob” Huff SD 37 Mimi Walters |
| State Assembly: | AD 55 Curt Hagman AD 65 Chris Norby AD 68 Donald P. “Don” Wagner AD 72 Troy Edgar AD 73 Diane L. Harkey AD 74 Allan R. Mansoor |
| Orange County | |
| Supervisor District 1 | Janet Nguyen |
| Supervisor District 3 | Todd Spitzer |
| Board of Ed. Area 1 | Robert Morris Hammond |
| Board of E. Area 3 | Ken L. Williams, Jr. |
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Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on May 11, 2012
The Lincoln Club of Orange County has announced their endorsements for the June 2012 primary election. TIming was right for their picks as absentee ballots dropped this week. One notable candidate missing from this list is State Senate Republican leader Bob Huff of the 29th District. Huff has had a rough couple of weeks with the CRP forgetting to endorse him as well. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on May 11, 2012
I am a fan of fun political advertisements as can be seen from my post of the Ed Lee for San Francisco Mayor video that I posted here. Despite the fact that Nguyen hates the video, I do enjoy the humor.
We now have Dan Hughes a United States Senate candidate that his put together his own video of randomness. The video includes lots of things that are funny including singing eagles, Street Fighter, and Chuck Devore.
The video can be viewed by clicking here.
In all seriousness, I do not really care who the nominee is between Dan Hughes, Elizabeth Emken, and Al Ramirez as long as the nominee is not Orly Taitz. If Orly Taitz is the nominee for Republicans in November we are in serious trouble of losing every competitive seat in California.
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Posted by Former Blogger Chris Emami on May 10, 2012
We got another mailer yesterday from the No on 29 campaign. The mailer was similar to the John Campbell piece that I posted earlier being an 8.5 x 11 that folds out into an 8.5 x 22. Overall the lack of color to the piece makes it appear very bland and I don’t know that it will get the attention from the voters that it needs in order to make an impact:
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