I received a constituent mailing from my City Council representative Melinda Katz, or, rather, from “Speaker Gifford Miller and Council Member Melinda Katz…Working to Make Our City Cleaner and Safer.” Voters have long been accustomed to incumbents using taxpayer-financed constituent mailings to trumpet their dubious “accomplishments” during campaign season, but…using a constituent mailing as a blatant campaign advertisement for a totally different candidate and race? Shouldn’t this sort of thing be illegal?
Come to think of it, shouldn’t Gifford Miller have dropped out of the race weeks ago? I mean, who’s clamoring for another pretty white liberal whose word can’t be trusted to be our next Mayor? Twelve percent of the voters, apparently.
Well, keep at it, tiger! Don’t let ethics and campaign finance reform keep you stuck in last place. You can do it!
Cool blog! I’ll be dropping by regularly.
Gee, I received a constituent mailing too very similar. However instead of Melinda Katz and Miller it was Miller and David Yassky. Everything else was the same (from your posting above quoting the information on the mailing). Seems to be a mass mailing with Gifford heading it.
Then again, I don’t think we have things in common. Thus, I won’t be visiting regularly. But I will check it out once in a blue–what the heck, you probably don’t care anyway.
Wow. Was that a blog break-up? Geez, way to instill a new kind of relationship anxiety in me!
It’s about time! mel and giff have most of their constituents fooled. Thank God someone is running against her. Let me work for that campaign! And Giff, not worth a nother mention