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April 27, 2006

A Friendlier Campaign

Filed under: Uncategorized - Administrator @ 5:49 pm

The Pomerado Newspaper Group has the skinny on a race to be the "honorary mayor" of Rancho Bernardo.

The election involves selling tickets (proceeds going to benefit charities) which are akin to votes.

The candidate who sells the most tickets becomes the honorary mayor and on Election Night they draw tickets for a raffle to award prizes to some of those who participated.

Read more about this nifty system they’ve had in place since 1991 here.

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  1. Hey Administrator - any way to get hold of you via email? When I try to use your email link, I get no address line.

    Comment by RJB — April 28, 2006 @ 4:26 am

  2. Really? The link works for me: sdpoliticsblog@yahoo.com

    Comment by yeah right — April 28, 2006 @ 4:31 am

  3. Then again, Administrator never wrote back to me and there was no other evidence to suggest s/he ever got my msg.

    Comment by yeah right — April 28, 2006 @ 4:32 am

  4. My guess is that Administrator has a day job… I’ve emailed several bug reports and site suggestions. Still haven’t heard back.

    Then again, if there is a bug, it might be a bug in the blogsome software, and not a sdpolitics-specific bug that Administrator can fix.

    Comment by Nik — April 28, 2006 @ 5:05 pm

  5. One month from an election and there are no posts by the administrator???

    Comment by Fred — May 2, 2006 @ 3:16 am

  6. Seems like Eric Roach’s website has gone off-line. Anyone have the scoop on this, or is it just temporary?

    Comment by Cross Tabs — May 2, 2006 @ 5:20 pm

  7. Hm. I can’t get to it right now either. It was up last time I checked. 90% sure that was on Sunday. It hadn’t been updated since before 4/11 as far as I could tell. I also noticed Sunday that he wasn’t doing his Google ads anymore.

    Also wasn’t he supposed to announce something by the end of last week? Seems like he’s out. Although, I suppose it is conceivable he just took down the site in order to revamp it ahead of an announcement that he’s in.

    Comment by yeah right — May 2, 2006 @ 5:51 pm

  8. I just tried, and was able toaccess his site. He’s up with a “Thank you, and there’s a lot more work to do” letter.

    Comment by right on left coast — May 3, 2006 @ 3:50 am

  9. Roach’s website may be up, but what about SD Politics? Administrator, did you abandon the effort?

    Comment by the other DC guy — May 5, 2006 @ 7:02 pm

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