{"id":10647,"date":"2018-05-24T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10647"},"modified":"2018-05-24T10:45:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T14:45:37","slug":"a-quick-note-on-mailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10647","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Note on Mailers"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the wake of our printing Evan Glass\u2019s Watchdog mailer<\/a>, we were promptly contacted by numerous other candidates, including several in his race, asking why their mailers were not also posted.\u00a0 Rather than respond to more texts and calls than we can answer in a day, let\u2019s respond once here.<\/p>\n

We love political mail on Seventh State.\u00a0 Yes we do!\u00a0 We put up Glass\u2019s mailer because it was different and we liked it.\u00a0 Most mail is not different.\u00a0 Your author has a collection of MoCo political lit going back to 1986 (and a few older ones too).\u00a0 It\u2019s almost all the same.\u00a0 \u201cI believe in strong schools!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI will fix traffic congestion!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cNew leadership for a new day!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cExperience you can count on!\u201d\u00a0 And so on.\u00a0 There are lots of endorsement logos.\u00a0 The words \u201cprogressive\u201d and \u201cleader\u201d are very common.\u00a0 It\u2019s all sooooooo safe and predictable.\u00a0 The only thing that has changed is that in some districts the mail from long ago would sometimes say, \u201cI am the best Democrat to beat the Republicans!\u201d\u00a0 We wiped out all MoCo GOP office holders in 2006 so that no longer needs to be said.<\/p>\n

These candidates want their mail posted.\u00a0 Would you be willing to pay for an intern who can do it for us?<\/em><\/p>\n

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So if you want us to put up your mail, be interesting.\u00a0 Be different!\u00a0 Use a sense of humor.\u00a0 Stand out.\u00a0 Say something that other candidates don\u2019t say.\u00a0 Say something that’s directly relevant to the circumstances of your race rather than blandly generic.\u00a0 Or if you want to put out a particularly awful piece, we might post that too!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an example of lit we would definitely put up: Comptroller William Donald Schaefer, 2001.<\/em><\/p>\n

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There is so much more mail coming than we can ever post so we need to pick the good ones \u2013 or at least the different ones.\u00a0 And if you\u2019re not standing out to us, you\u2019re probably not standing out to the voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. In the wake of our printing Evan Glass\u2019s Watchdog mailer, we were promptly contacted by numerous other candidates, including several in his race, asking why their mailers were not also posted.\u00a0 Rather than respond to more texts and calls than we can answer in a day, let\u2019s respond once here. We love … Continue reading A Quick Note on Mailers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[1545],"class_list":["post-10647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","tag-adam-pagnucco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2LJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10678,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10647\/revisions\/10678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}