According to the Times, State Senators were not pleased to find that VisitFlorida outsourced marketing services to a company outside of the state. VisitFlorida budgeted about $600,000 for one year to USA800, a Kansas City telemarketing firm, to field calls from and send brochures to tourists interested in vacationing in Florida. A Senate panel overseeing …
Category: Politics
Do local campaigns need TV?
The article today on political consultant Mich Kates highlights a point that seems to indicate a change in local political races going forward. The Beckner campaign tapped another, relatively inexpensive, means of reaching voters. While he raised nearly $200,000, the campaign spent none of it on television and little on the radio. While I do not …
Government waste
According to the Tampa Tribune eight local police and rescue agencies spent at least $175,000 since April during campaign visits by Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John McCain, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton. Tampa police spent $100,826 on nine visits. The total is only slightly more than Sarah Palin’s wardrobe blunder which was paid for by …
Moore’s newest blockbuster? Fahrenheit 6%
Jessi Miller pointed out Michael Moore’s latest public statement; where he revels in the glow of change, thanks activists for their efforts and emphasizes that more work is still to be done. I want to thank everyone who gave of their time and resources to make this victory happen. It’s been a long road, and huge …
Choices, change and a state senator
I’ve put considerable though into what I think of this election and its results regard president. As a politically active citizen I was unhappy with either of my options and place the blame squarely on those of you who do not participate or follow your local election. If you want to know who I voted …
Obama, Congress and the ad industry
With the election of Obama this week Advertising Age has reported that our industry could feel some “pain” under the new administration. “Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride,” said Dick O’Brien, exec VP of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. Much of the needed health care reform our country needs could …
Tampa port director target of Obama’s tax increase
If Barack Obama is elected president next week his tax plan for the wealthy will target our own Tampa Port Authority director who with this year’s bonus will earn over $250,000 in 2008. That’s more than the yearly salary of the US Vice President ($208 thousand) and more than half the amount paid to the …
Dorothy wore silver slippers
After my post last week about the American cheese burger and our bailout I continued reading up on our money supply and discovered a story, written over 100 years ago, that seems all to relevant to our situation today. The parallels of the story astound me in how it illustrates just how tied to credit we …
American cheeseburger illustrates hastiness of bailout
While I watched our US Senate sell itself out to the banking industry last night I was becoming more and more frustrated with how this crisis seems to be playing out. Libor or Lemming? I am newly familiar with an obscure term called the Libor Rate or London Interbank Offered Rate, which is the rate …
Just do something! We can still be friends…
I pretty regularly have the “I don’t care what your opinion is as long as you have one and do something about it conversation” with friends and associates. ~ Especially if we disagree. This British ad for HSBC bank by JWT illustrates this sentiment perfectly. Via AdWeek