[AGL] Miss Piggy Strikes Up the Band

[Frances Morey]

I met one of her signature gatherers on the bus. He was Hispanic and seemed like an unlikely suporter. I asked him what the petition was about. When he showed me the Strayhorn sticker on the back of the clipboard I admitted that I voted in the Democratic primary. Looking puzzled at him he commented that he was getting paid to get signatures. He said that he had gotten seventeen real fast but he hardly seemed ideologically alligned with the candidate. I didn't ask how much he got per signature, but I wish I would have. I would guess $2 per signature would be ballpark.
  Frances
  

Harry Edwards <laughingwolf at ev1.net> wrote:
  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 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.


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