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The Hallelujah! Chorus

4 November, 20104 November, 2010 Drew LittonDrew Litton 6 Comments
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Here in Colorado, the Broncos are off this weekend. Of course, they’re off every weekend. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to share one of my non-sports cartoons going into the weekend. This is one I did this week for the Guadalupe County Communicator that I think we can all relate to. It’s certainly the way I feel. I was so sick of the negative campaign ads I thought I was going to explode. I put together this short list of campaign reform ideas I’d most like to see. Feel free to add your own.

Cam-PAIN reform:

1. No campaign ad containing lies will be allowed to air. This pretty much eliminates all of them.

2. No candidate can spend more on their campaign ads then the average American worker has in their own bank account. Which these days would be about a buck and a quarter.

3. Campaign ads may only run for 7 days prior to any given election and only in the same time slots as infomercials. (2 to 4 a.m. seems fair)

4. Phone calls can only be made by the candidate themselves. If they ain’t got the time to call, we ain’t got the time to listen.

5. All campaign signs must be removed from parks, yards, roadsides, etc, by 7:05 p.m on Election day. That gives ’em 5 minutes after the polls close , which is really 4 minutes longer than they should have.

6. Every campaign ad must be created, produced and paid for in the same neighborhood as the campaigner currently resides. This eliminates those schmucks from 2500 miles away who are actually oil company lobbiests from stacking the deck on election day.

7. All campaign ads are restricted from using any actual sounds and voices in the making of their commercials. Silence is golden. Especially on Radio. Amen.

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6 thoughts on “The Hallelujah! Chorus”

  1. Good Morning from Omaha,

    Wow, you could read my mind. I still don’t get how anyone can spend millions of dollars for a job that “pays” just over $100,000. And I am still amazed that some politicians can go to D.C. with very little and retire millionaires many times over again. They must become very wise investors?

    whats the old saying, cross the palms with paper? It must still exist in washington.

    and now the local news has the time to do in depth reporting, if they ever did such a thing.

    Its almost like they have a commercial template and then just fill in the blank with the candidates name. I appreciate when someone is clever and uses word play to make their point but the fill in the blank commercials make me crazy.

    Strive for excellence, nothing but your best.

    Gene

  2. Drew–

    You said what was on a lot of people’s minds regarding those beyond horrid campaign ads. I’d MUCH rather have a root canal. It hurts a lot less. And the pain is over a lot sooner.

  3. I arrived late, but here in Brazil whenever there’s elections open TV stations (not cable ones) have to interrupt their broadcasts twice every day for an hour because of political ads. On prime time, no less (from 1pm to 2pm and from 8h30pm to 9h30pm). When there’s no election, once or twice a week they have to run political ads that could go anywhere from twenty minutes to one hour. And you wouldn’t even imagine the quality of those. This year we had even (female) candidates appealing to their body attributes in a not very subtle way and one clown (literally) using a slogan that could be translates as “It can’t be worse than it already is, so vote for Tiririca”.

  4. Drew, you need to run for office and your platform is political reform. It’s all right there, the cartoon alone would get you elected.

  5. Judging by the Santa Rosa shirt, he could also be celebrating the San Francisco Giants winning the World Series.

  6. What if other industries used the same negative ads that campaigns did?

    Airlines: (shot of plane landing in the Hudson River) “Want to get there on time? Fly Southwest.”

    Restaurants: “Joe’s Diner was cited 12 times in the last decade for violations. That’s not good for families: Eat at Tom’s.”

    Sports Franchises: “The Texas Rangers payroll has reached record highs in the last 20 years. Say No to AL Big Spending, and Pick the Astros.”

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