[AGL] Miss Piggy Strikes Up the Band

[Harry Edwards]

Miss Piggy may be the mistress of the esprit d'escalier but she has 
squandered a lotta good press in her campaign thus far. Initially the 
press and a lotta Texans bought the one tough grandma act and were 
extremely skeptical of Kinky. Kinky kept plodding away, doing his thing 
and attracting followers, 98% volunteer signature collectors, while 
Miss Piggy is rapidly squandering her good press with stunts, and 
hiring a flotilla of petition wielders, many of whom know little or 
nothing about her.

On May 11, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Frances Morey wrote:

> Harry,
> Campaigns are no more than long drawn out play-ettes. By the time the 
> candidate goes national they've learned to talk in sound bites, show 
> up for photo ops, and never let us see them sweat. They say the same 
> loop over and over mechanically and you wonder how they can have the 
> stamina to keep forming the words. Carole KMCRS is the mistress of the 
> esprit d'escalier. Thats French for tossing remarks over their 
> shoulder while turning their back to news gatherers, having the last 
> word and launching pot shots. Kinky out good-ol'-boys the 
> good-ol'-boys and has his own loop of meaningless palaver-on-a-reel. I 
> wonder how many signatories are attached to both his and the one tough 
> gramma's petitions, indeed. It's all imagery. 
> Don't you know that words have no meaning since Bush became spokesman 
> for America? They all might as well be saying bla bla bla bla bla bla.
> Chris Bell is the diametric opposite. He says relevant things, 
> describes programs to make government work better that he pledges to 
> champion, if elected, and speaks to to the minds and hearts of people 
> with moral spine. He is the real thing.
> I don't care who you support or who you vote for. I'm too old to give 
> a damn who is elected at the local and state level. They'er gonna do 
> what they're gonna do whether I pay attention or not.
> Yes, the senate race in NYC will determine if HRC can attain the 
> immortality of greatness or simply become a footnote in history, the 
> little ol' first lady that couldn't.
> But I think she can, I think she can.
> Best,
> Frances
>
>
> Harry Edwards <laughingwolf at ev1.net> wrote:
>> SoS rebukes Strayhorn over boxes
>>
>> It appears that the Tough Grandma had to distribute her petitions
>> throughout a large number of boxes in order to make them easier to
>> carry. That's the explanation her campaign manager gives anyway, but
>> the Secretary of State's office isn't buying it:
>>
>> “As our staff is beginning to consolidate and organize all of the
>> petitions that Ms. Strayhorn turned in yesterday, we have consolidated
>> her 101 boxes (of petitions) down to 12,” says Scott Haywood,
>> communications director for the Secretary of State’s office. Haywood 
>> is
>> not sure what the agency will do with the leftover cartons (all 101
>> delivered Tuesday were slapped with Strayhorn bumper stickers). He 
>> made
>> it clear that Strayhorn did not fill boxes to the brim. “If she had 
>> not
>> been so hungry for media attention, we would not have had to waste 
>> time
>> consolidating her petitions into a more usable format. By trying to 
>> get
>> a bigger play in the media, she has made the process more
>> time-consuming for our office.”
>>
>> The retort from Brad McClellan, the comptroller's son, mentions the
>> outsized burden of paper:
>>
>> “Try organizing one box full or carrying one full,” McClellan said.
>> “It’s a shame they waste time doing this cheap partisan attack.”
>>
>> The post goes on to report (accurately) that the Kinkster will be
>> delivering his signatures to the Secretary of State tomorrow. Yes
>> indeed--there will be bringing tightly packed, signature-filled boxes.
>>
>> And we'll be bringing the muscle to carry them.