Key Part of Kerry's Ad-making Team Quits

[mobuto]

By RON FOURNIER

AP Political Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - A financial dispute between Democrat John Kerry's campaign and a key part of his ad-making team has led to a shakeup.

Jim Margolis said Friday that his Riverfront Media/GMMB firm will no longer produce commercials for the campaign because of ``proposed contract changes.'' A firm headed by Kerry adviser Bob Shrum, which has shared duties with Margolis, will take on a broader role in the campaign, officials said.

``We have been honored to help produce the spots and assist in developing the strategy that helped him secure the Democratic nomination. However, due to proposed contract changes, we could not come to an understanding that we regarded as workable,'' Margolis told The Associated Press.

``While we will continue to provide media placement services for the campaign, our strategic and advertising responsibilities will end,'' he said. ``We know that John Kerry will go on to win in November and that he will make a great president of the United States.''

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3932355,00.html

[nolabels]

1. To be honest, I have yet to see any advertizement for Kerry

Not that I needed any. Really though, what were these guys doing anyway?

Looks like..........Okay forget it,



http://www.johnkerry.com/

[sangh0]

2. This may surprise you

but candidates don't run ads in areas where they either

a) expect to win without difficulty
b) expect to lose, no matter how hard they try.

I live in NY State, and I would not be surprised if I don't see any of the commercials. NYS is pretty solidly Dem when it comes to Presidential election

[nolabels]

6. That's why you have a pub for a governor huh?

Just like the people who were saying California would never have another a pub for governor

No I was not surprised, I knew that, I was just trying to make light of them guys that seem to be asleep at the wheel. It's just as well that they were, playing rope-r-dope is working for Kerry

* is self destructing without any help :kick:

[sangh0]

7. Read it again. I said "PRESIDENTAL election"

not gubernatorial elections.

[lancdem]

3. I have

But I live in Pennsylvania, a battleground state. Bush ads are even more prominent. :puke:

[nolabels]

5. My condolences

June 1, 2002

It's Only a Traditional Hijacking, Folks, So Just Sit Back and Enjoy the Flight


By Warren Pease

National Security Adviser Condi Rice, looking eerily like a bobble-head doll with a stretched spring, spent about 45 minutes last Thursday telling the nation that while the Bush administration had advance warning of significant terrorist activity involving hijacked airliners, they failed to recognize that these events would be "non-traditional."

Now that traditional and non-traditional hijackings have entered the national lexicon, it seems useful to examine the characteristics of each so that the flying public can decide if they're in for a stay in the Libyan desert or a date with a skyscraper.


The Traditional Hijacking: Understated but Elegant
Traditional hijackers wear leather and bandoleers. Their leaders stride slowly and purposefully up the aisle to the cockpit. Their accomplices glare threateningly at the passengers while the theme from "Shaft," arranged for bouzouki and kazoo, blares from the cabin PA.

Traditionalists have no use for box cutters. They prefer the time-honored tools of their craft: Fine automatic weapons and plastique, smuggled on board while Office of Homeland Security geniuses busied themselves jacking up 75-year-old grannies and confiscating their sewing scissors and tooth brushes.
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http://bushandcheneysuck.com/

[Jane Austin]

4. I walked past my computer and thought I heard

somebody on the O'Franken Factor saying something about "Faith-based Health Care".

If I did, I think Al Franken ought to be on the advertising team. :)


(edited for homynym issue)