Chris Daly: Poster Child
Allison writes:
"I just had to show you these posters that I saw on my walk to Bart this morning. They were all over the place!"
"I just had to show you these posters that I saw on my walk to Bart this morning. They were all over the place!"
posted by the clicker at 11:45 AM
5 Comments:
David Z writes:
"Hah! A buddy and I were putting those up last night after the debates at the library. I was taping a flyer onto a tree by the front door and 1 of Daly's toadies came up and said "you can't do that! It's illegal! It hurts the tree!" He looked like Richard Simmons and was wearing 2 green bead necklaces. I pointed out that it was no more illegal than Daly's campaign littering the district with 1000s of flyers stuck on their doors and that it wouldn't be on the tree long enough to hurt it. He tried to tear the flyer down, but his little hands were too feeble. The power of the green beads failed him! But he did manage to take a picture of the back of my head, for some nefarious purpose. Beware the Daly Gestapo! They're taking names and pulling down fliers!"
So, it's your assertion that say, 50 home-xeroxed flyers with a political message on them, taped up to trees and lamp posts ISN'T a legitimate way to "get your ideas heard", but that Daly's minions attaching thousands of expensively-printed flyers to people's gates and doors (many of which end up littering the sidewalk), and his putting hundreds of window signs up in businesses that say nothing more informative than Daly's name IS a legitimate way to get his message across.
So you want to keep political commentary in the hands of rich professionals. Check.
And what you call Rob Black's "camp and associates" (whatever vague group that's supposed to identify) is really groups as diverse as the Police Officers Association, the Restaurant Association, and the Residential Builders Association. All of these groups have the legal right to criticize Daly, verbally or in print. They all have the right to spend their money endorsing whatever candidate they want. So long as the Daly Campaign isn't behind the mailers (and there's no substantive reason to believe he is), no laws have been broken.
You KNOW that if say, the fat cat developers that built that big high-rise in Rincon that Daly is taking credit for were sending out mailers endorsing him, he wouldn't be objecting to THOSE mailers, and neither would anyone else.
Daly's a crybaby who can't handle having people criticize him, while spending his entire career criticizing others. Like the way that Daly has used his City-hosted and paid-for blog to attack the Mayor and his other political foes. And the way that--after years of this unethical use of public funds--he was finally forced to stop using it for his axe-grinding.
David Z writes:
"I knew someone would have to bitch about the flyers! Its especially stupid to criticize people for DIY political activism considering how often Daly does things that are questionably legal. Like the way that he appointed Adam Werbach and that other guy to the PUC while Brown was off in Tibet. Like the way that last night at the debate he started broadcasting a political rant after the debate was supposed to have ended and everyone else was quiet and respectful. He's the biggest violator of the very rules youre talking about. Are you gonna complain about that? I doubt it.
Well youd better get ready for a lot more such flyers about Daly posted around the district and dont expect the graphic design to get any better. Thats just the way it is in the world of grassroots activism and DIY."
HVT - I don't get why you are so invested in a site that is not even for your candidate?
er, I mean for your district...of course...it's late. time for ML to go to bedfordshire.
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