Saved from the OJB Cutting Room Floor: ‘I can be on the COPS Slate Mailer!’

By
Greg Diamond
– June 5, 2012Posted in: Campaign Retardation 101, Fresh Juice
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NOTE: I never got around to posting this article, one of my series on Slate Mailers, which I drafted back on March 16.  As an unprinted and soon untimely story, it lay on what editors call the “cutting room floor” (where it has a fair amount of company.)  But in honor of the fact that Fullerton recall candidates Kiger, Levinson, and Sebourn somehow found their way onto the COPS VOTER GUIDE Slate Mailer after I rolled my eyes and said “no thanks, I have too much respect for the electorate than to try to put something like this over on them,” it really ought to go out before the beginning of Election Day.  (I did end up posting about the eventual release of the COPS mailer in mid May.)  Opinion on this site varies as to whether Chaffee/Williams/Georgieff, or Rowe/Rands/Georgieff, is the best vote to cast today, but at least everyone can agree on one thing: we can’t remember the names of all 13 candidates and we’re glad that it’s almost over.

As a reminder: as a candidate for office I get lots of interesting solicitations, some of which I think are of greater (i.e., actual news) interest to a larger who maybe wonder about questions such as “how did Candidate X get onto that slate mailer?” This is #2 of an occasional series in which I let the public know what it looks like from this site of the curtain.

Dear ____,

The deadline for inclusion on the June 5th Primary Election COPS VOTER GUIDE is rapidly approaching. In less than 50 days our COPS VOTER GUIDES will begin reaching thousands of voters in your district.

COPS VOTER GUIDE is targeting high-propensity independent households to maximize the effectiveness of our endorsements. We are recognized as a leader in helping to win candidate and ballot measure campaigns.

Complete the online Candidate Form or give us a call at (916) 485-5888 and we will provide you with all of the information you need to be featured on the COPS VOTER GUIDE and COPS California Vote by Mail Voter Guide.

The COPS VOTER GUIDE and COPS California Vote by Mail Voter Guide features:

  • Two-for-One: Voters can read more about our endorsed candidates and link their websites at our Pollie Award winning website:  COPSVOTERGUIDE.com
  • Targeting to frequent voters in all categories including Vote by Mail voters
  • Cost-efficient, candidate specific text
  • Award winning full-color design and production
  • Payment by check or credit card

We look forward to working with you toward a successful election.

Sincerely,


Copton C. Copperson [not the real name]
Publisher
COPS VOTER GUIDE
© 2010 COPS Voter Guide | copsvoterguide.com
Number Name St. #370, Folsom, CA ZIP
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When the COPS Voter Guide comes out, I hope that those of you who receive it will share with OJB who is on it so we can find out how much they paid.

UPDATE: Who was on it?  Notorious cop-lovers (in order of relative innocence) Sebourn, Kiger, and Litterin’ Levinson.  If you don’t spend money bamboozling the public, what’s left to spend it on?

About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)