{"id":10964,"date":"2018-06-11T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10964"},"modified":"2019-05-29T04:54:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T08:54:42","slug":"moco-mailboxes-god-help-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10964","title":{"rendered":"MoCo Mailboxes: \u201cGod Help Us\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Mailboxes across MoCo are reeling from fatigue as they are crushed daily by tidal waves of political mail.\u00a0 On Friday, your author received mailers from Action Committee for Transit, the sitting judges, Council At-Large candidate Will Jawando, District 18 Senate candidate Dana Beyer and District 18 House candidate Emily Shetty.\u00a0 The next day your author received mailers from County Executive candidates David Blair and Roger Berliner, Council At-Large candidates Bill Conway and Evan Glass, District 18 House candidates Leslie Milano, Joel Rubin and Jared Solomon and the Maryland Realtors on behalf of District 18 Senate candidate Jeff Waldstreicher.\u00a0 That\u2019s thirteen political mailers in two days.<\/p>\n

District 18 is an unusually busy place.\u00a0 It has at least six General Assembly candidates with six-figure campaign budgets, or close to it.\u00a0 But lots of places around MoCo have serious competition, including Congress District 6, Council Districts 1 and 3 and all the state legislative districts except 14.\u00a0 In addition, there are strongly contested races for Governor, County Executive and Council At-Large.<\/p>\n

Candidates line up to door knock at a Super Democrat\u2019s house.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In the old days, the rule of thumb was that early mail was a waste of money.\u00a0 Now we wonder about that.\u00a0 There was a time not so long ago when Congress District 6 candidate David Trone, County Executive candidate David Blair and District 18 Senate candidate Dana Beyer \u2013 all self-funders \u2013 had the mailboxes largely to themselves.\u00a0 Now the mailboxes may not be big enough to hold each day\u2019s batch.\u00a0 Everyone\u2019s mail is getting lost in the shuffle.\u00a0 And when so much of it looks the same \u2013 almost everyone is a \u201cprogressive leader\u201d who promises to fund schools, fix congestion and resist Trump \u2013 it\u2019s unclear that anyone can win through mail.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to take something else to get across the line.<\/p>\n

The best of the mailers: District 18 House candidate Emily Shetty and her adorable son.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lately, your author has been performing a cruel experiment.\u00a0 Our son just turned nine.\u00a0 He much prefers Star Wars, nerf guns and video games to politics, but he understands that he has an eccentric Dada whose strange wishes must be occasionally tolerated.\u00a0 So when the new batches of mail come, your author gives them to him and asks which ones are his favorites.\u00a0 At first, the oppressed son dutifully complied and gave curt opinions.\u00a0 (He likes Will Jawando because he met him and David Blair because he owns Badlands Playspace<\/a>.)\u00a0 But now, the requests for review are met with eye rolls and crankiness.\u00a0 \u201cDo I really have to look at this stuff?\u201d he groans.<\/p>\n

We suspect more than a few MoCo voters might agree!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adam Pagnucco. Mailboxes across MoCo are reeling from fatigue as they are crushed daily by tidal waves of political mail.\u00a0 On Friday, your author received mailers from Action Committee for Transit, the sitting judges, Council At-Large candidate Will Jawando, District 18 Senate candidate Dana Beyer and District 18 House candidate Emily Shetty.\u00a0 The next … Continue reading MoCo Mailboxes: \u201cGod Help Us\u201d<\/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":[151,290],"tags":[1545,531],"class_list":["post-10964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-political-campaigns","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-campaign-literature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2QQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964","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=10964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12127,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964\/revisions\/12127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}