No on B careening off course
We now have seen the full color four-page mailer that No on B has put out in a rush to try to convince voters that Measure B is going to make "criminals" out of all medical marijuana patients. Patently absurd but we knew that argument was coming. The interesting thing is, word in PR circles in the Bay Area is that CalNORML is pumping big bucks into the No on B campaign (I've heard as much as $100,000). The mailer they sent out probably cost something like $15,000 and they have spent another estimated $4,000 to be placed on a "slate mailer" for Republicans and another $4,000 to be on a slate card touting itself as from COPS (which has nothing to do with police officers but the initials are supposed to make you believe law enforcement is behind it).
Slate mailers are a kind of low-budget political advertising put out by we'll-do-anything PR firms who take money from anyone and put them on "strategic" postcard mass mailers purporting to have support from popular mainstream organizations. That No on B would put themselves on a "Republican" slate mailer and on the "COPS" slate mailer tells me that they are desperate and turning to help from outside political consultants who think our county's voters are just sheep to be led to the slaughter, too stupid to see a hoax when it comes in the mail.
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I didn't see one (1) fact to support your argument, which seems to be something like "Measure B Good, Measure G Bad."
And, what precisely is the "hoax?"
Posted by: Janie Sheppard | May 14, 2008 02:29 PM
Has Turncoat Tom Allman put his zip tie program to bed already? When the 25 plants were going to make money for his department, he was all in favor. What happened Tom? Did you forget we have a video of you at Area 101 claiming your allegiance to the cannabis growers of our county? That nasty smell isn't from the plants, it's the smell of dirty politicians and the smell of forfieture money in the air. Ol' Tom said what he said and now wants to make it all go away. Tom, are you still planning to hand your county over to the Feds this harvest season because you can't handle it by yourself?
Posted by: elvis | May 14, 2008 04:29 PM