Best,

BB

I respectfully challenge you to be a part of the solution – Differentiate yourself from your competitors. Take a stand on using cheesy ‘dirty tricks, if you have not already done so.

I believe 9 of 10 active voters have NO IDEA about the ENTIRE political consulting industry. I also believe that a group with so much intellect, zeal to win, and understanding of issues ought to be beyond reproach. You folks HELP frame the issues, pick the battles, and create the ‘buzz’. And most voters haven’t a clue that a consultant is involved. Sort of like having a lawyer, undisclosed, running a case.

Why do some of the best and brightest in America choose to run screaming from the political process? Dirty, bloodsport, ugly are a few of the words used to describe politics. That will probably never change, at least it hasn’t since Roman times.

We must change by getting candidates involved in issues and not ‘dirty tricks’. Are we going to allow the Great American experiment to fail and blame the other Party in the process?

There it is.

I hold all of y’all personally and partially responsible for the sad state of affairs in our Nation, our State, and our GOP. To candidates: You have the right and responsibility to “Just say NO” to your political operative (POLYP) when confronted with clever trickery.

Campaign funding reform, disallowing legislators to pick their voters vis a vis redistricting, and focusing campaigns on the many pressing issues are prerequisites to actual change. Instead of the ABSURD pap yammered about above.

Political consulting industry – Murky, costly, unregulated, unknown to most, and yet, a dangerous necessity to become a lawmaker.

Kingmakers, Inc. history will not treat y’all well.

Icarus, since Handel is obviously already working with our enemies, echoing their propaganda, almost word for word, how can I trust that she’s not some kind of Tennessee Manchurian candidate recruited to sap and impurity more of our precious, water resources? I bet he first act as Governor will be to sign over all of Dade and Walker County to Tennessee so Georgia has no claim on the water.

All of that being said, I can envision a situation where Karen actually did send the email, and (like I usually do) forgot that the iPhone tag line was even there.

Benefit of the doubt, and all that.

The second one is standard practice in the political consulting industry, especially when dealing with candidates in completely different states.

The first one is, in my opinion, an innovative twist on a number of “personalization” direct mail techniques that are also just as obviously not true — but also work incredibly well at raising response rates.

This would be a much more interesting story to me, if we could get Emotive or the campaigns to tell us the response rates for these two emails, and how well they compared to other emails. But don’t hold your breath for them to release info like that, at least not until after the campaigns are over (then they’ll be proud enough to share).