Collarspace Discussion Forums


Home  Login  Search 

RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election-


View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
 
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Polls and Other Random Stupidity >> RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- Page: <<   < prev  1 [2]
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/15/2013 7:58:53 AM   
Hillwilliam


Posts: 19394
Joined: 8/27/2008
Status: offline 		Hunky. I'd remove the "end fluoridation of water" from your platform. It makes your guy look like a tinfoiler and the incumbent will jump all over that to distract from his own liabilities.

_____________________________

Kinkier than a cheap garden hose.

Whoever said "Religion is the opiate of the masses" never heard Right Wing talk radio.

Don't blame me, I voted for Gary Johnson.

(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 21
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/15/2013 8:07:27 AM   
pahunkboy


Posts: 33061
Joined: 2/26/2006
From: Central Pennsylvania
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

Hunky. I'd remove the "end fluoridation of water" from your platform. It makes your guy look like a tinfoiler and the incumbent will jump all over that to distract from his own liabilities.



No way in hell. We are taking on this issue either way after the election. Thanks for your suggestion tho.

Rumor has it- even the police chief wont drink the water.

(in reply to Hillwilliam)
Profile   Post #: 22
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/15/2013 8:09:15 AM   
pahunkboy


Posts: 33061
Joined: 2/26/2006
From: Central Pennsylvania
Status: offline 		So far- we are getting the vote roster- from that- we will try to get these people to vote absentee.


50 votes can swing the election. A no name got 40% of the vote in the primary. People do not want the frack dump.

(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 23
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/15/2013 8:12:46 AM   
MasterCaneman


Posts: 3842
Joined: 3/21/2013
Status: offline 		If you have to, show the cost/benefit analysis of ending municipal fluoridation, and link it to the negative health impacts (with cited VALID references). Always aim for the wallet, that's the sure way to get votes. And definitely avoid tinfoil-hatism by all means-it'll shut you out faster than anything.

Oh, and one last thing. If any of the advice you take from here works, under no circumstances do you ever reveal that you garnered it from a BDSM message board. Ever.

_____________________________

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and ambition.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu

Goddess Wrangler



(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 24
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/15/2013 8:20:49 AM   
Hillwilliam


Posts: 19394
Joined: 8/27/2008
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: pahunkboy


quote:

ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

Hunky. I'd remove the "end fluoridation of water" from your platform. It makes your guy look like a tinfoiler and the incumbent will jump all over that to distract from his own liabilities.



No way in hell. We are taking on this issue either way after the election. Thanks for your suggestion tho.

Rumor has it- even the police chief wont drink the water.

I didn't say not to do it later. I said not to make it a campaign point.

Incumbents are hard to beat. The way to beat them is to be a relative unknown. It worked for Obama didn't it? (I know he wasn't running against an incumbent but he was running against Hillary who was as close as you can get).
Know how Clinton won his first term?
"The economy is bad and my last name isn't Bush" was pretty much his whole platform.
The more the incumbent knows about you, the more he can look for ammunition.

You need to avoid some of the controversial stuff that might make you look tinfoilish or he will jump all over it and try to make your guy look silly.

Remember the old proverb. "Tis far better to be silent and thought an be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"

It's especially important in politics. Look what happened to the TEA party.

_____________________________

Kinkier than a cheap garden hose.

Whoever said "Religion is the opiate of the masses" never heard Right Wing talk radio.

Don't blame me, I voted for Gary Johnson.

(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 25
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/15/2013 9:47:50 AM   
pahunkboy


Posts: 33061
Joined: 2/26/2006
From: Central Pennsylvania
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: MasterCaneman

If you have to, show the cost/benefit analysis of ending municipal fluoridation, and link it to the negative health impacts (with cited VALID references). Always aim for the wallet, that's the sure way to get votes. And definitely avoid tinfoil-hatism by all means-it'll shut you out faster than anything.

Oh, and one last thing. If any of the advice you take from here works, under no circumstances do you ever reveal that you garnered it from a BDSM message board. Ever.



I could not agree with you more.

I think it costs us 50k a year on the fluoride. If might be cheaper to hand out fluoride pills.


(in reply to MasterCaneman)
Profile   Post #: 26
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/15/2013 10:10:29 AM   
mnottertail


Posts: 60698
Joined: 11/3/2004
Status: offline 		isnt there enough flouride in toothpaste? so, how many votes total do you need to win according to historical voter turnout?

_____________________________

Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two? Judges 5:30


(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 27
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/15/2013 11:16:05 AM   
jlf1961


Posts: 14840
Joined: 6/10/2008
From: Somewhere Texas
Status: offline 		Hunk in all seriousness, you need to learn dirty tricks in politics. Pictures of your opponents in compromising situations, or dressed in character attending a rocky horror showing.

_____________________________

Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?

You cannot control who comes into your life, but you can control which airlock you throw them out of.

Paranoid Paramilitary Gun Loving Conspiracy Theorist AND EQUAL OPPORTUNI

(in reply to mnottertail)
Profile   Post #: 28
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/15/2013 10:15:14 PM   
MasterCaneman


Posts: 3842
Joined: 3/21/2013
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Hunk in all seriousness, you need to learn dirty tricks in politics. Pictures of your opponents in compromising situations, or dressed in character attending a rocky horror showing.


Photoshop is your friend.

_____________________________

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and ambition.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu

Goddess Wrangler



(in reply to jlf1961)
Profile   Post #: 29
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/15/2013 10:42:08 PM   
jlf1961


Posts: 14840
Joined: 6/10/2008
From: Somewhere Texas
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: MasterCaneman


quote:

ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Hunk in all seriousness, you need to learn dirty tricks in politics. Pictures of your opponents in compromising situations, or dressed in character attending a rocky horror showing.


Photoshop is your friend.


I am old school, slip em a mickey and take em to a whore house, take the pictures and send em to the local news.

_____________________________

Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?

You cannot control who comes into your life, but you can control which airlock you throw them out of.

Paranoid Paramilitary Gun Loving Conspiracy Theorist AND EQUAL OPPORTUNI

(in reply to MasterCaneman)
Profile   Post #: 30
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/15/2013 10:45:25 PM   
MasterCaneman


Posts: 3842
Joined: 3/21/2013
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: jlf1961


quote:

ORIGINAL: MasterCaneman


quote:

ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Hunk in all seriousness, you need to learn dirty tricks in politics. Pictures of your opponents in compromising situations, or dressed in character attending a rocky horror showing.


Photoshop is your friend.


I am old school, slip em a mickey and take em to a whore house, take the pictures and send em to the local news.

Don't forget the tattoo.

_____________________________

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and ambition.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu

Goddess Wrangler



(in reply to jlf1961)
Profile   Post #: 31
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/15/2013 11:26:48 PM   
Termyn8or


Posts: 18681
Joined: 11/12/2005
Status: offline
quote:

Key Issues


Yeah well almost NEVER does a city government have any say in any fracking operations, whether extracting or dumping. City governments cannot lower state taxes or do much of anything to entice new business ergo new jobs.

They can abate city taxes, and possible some local zoning, ONLY LOCAL. If they have alot of money they can loan some to a new business. If they have a strong economy they can even make a bond offering to do infrastructure inprovements to entice a new business, but if it doesn' pay off their name is mud.

Really if you are anti-fed, the state is the way to go. The things that really matter will be more easily handled by the state, especially if it means fighting the feds. Having your people in the local governments does indeed help, but watch that platform. Don't make promises the dude cannot keep because early in his carreer it can damn him worse than a sex scandal, and I mean sex with a little kid scandal. If "they" don't like him the fact that he turned the TV channel in 1972 can and will be used against him.

People do not have the intelligence to iunderstand that there are things a mayor cannot do, and that applies to councilmen as well. They all make lies they know they cannot keep. (I refuse to call them promises)

Pennsylvania is technically a commonwealth, which is only a slightly different legal status of a "state". It really doesn't matter to a company that does fracking. They deal through the feds and somewhat the state, but the state can tie them up in court. What's more I doubt the issue is as stated becasue the federal EPA is not going to let them dump fracking waste in a viable river or stream anyway. Tort cases will at the VERY LEAST be handled on a county level, if not higher.

In other words this may be a manufactured issue, and I am sure a mayoral election is not going to fix it. To have the guy on your side later when the shit hits the fan is what matters. If soemone on the side of the People can climb the political ladder that is of course good, but a smalltown mayor promising to clean up the environment is not all that smart.

T^T

(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 32
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/16/2013 5:55:46 AM   
pahunkboy


Posts: 33061
Joined: 2/26/2006
From: Central Pennsylvania
Status: offline 		The issues are more then a frack dump. Things are pre-decided - public comment and opinion is ignored on pretty much every issue. The mayor has done things that - he should go to jail for. Payalo-- fraud- broke sunshine laws.

The man we are running is a current city council member he is a known quantity. He has been around a long time. He does not have an ego problem.

(in reply to Termyn8or)
Profile   Post #: 33
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/16/2013 6:59:43 AM   
pahunkboy


Posts: 33061
Joined: 2/26/2006
From: Central Pennsylvania
Status: offline 		BTW- we have a serious problem.


The mayor is out to oust our police chief. The current chief does not harrass me. I never worry about it.

(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 34
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/16/2013 7:50:31 AM   
MasterCaneman


Posts: 3842
Joined: 3/21/2013
Status: offline 		Then go to the county sheriff or state police with it. Sitting mayors can get away with stunts like that. Is you chief an elected or appointed position? If elected, it's another campaign to fight-if the latter there isn't much you can do. It also depends on if there's a contract involved regarding his position.

_____________________________

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and ambition.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu

Goddess Wrangler



(in reply to pahunkboy)
Profile   Post #: 35
RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- - 8/16/2013 8:21:58 AM   
pahunkboy


Posts: 33061
Joined: 2/26/2006
From: Central Pennsylvania
Status: offline 		The police chief is appointed. He is well liked in the area. For the most part he stays out of the political fray.

(in reply to MasterCaneman)
Profile   Post #: 36
Page:   <<   < prev  1 [2]
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Polls and Other Random Stupidity >> RE: I need ideas to win the mayoral election- Page: <<   < prev  1 [2]
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts




Collarchat.com © 2025
Terms of Service Privacy Policy Spam Policy

0.110