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A slate card this week urged independents to
vote for Eric Swallowable.
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ELECTION 2016 |
A slate card sent to some East Bay homes this week refers to 15th Congressional District Rep. Eric Swalwell as "Eric Swallowable."
The slate card sent by a group calling itself the "No Party Preference Voter Guide" also features Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kamala, Hayward Assemblymember Bill Quirk and state Proposition's 51 and 52 on the mailer.
Its primary beneficiary, though, is Jaime Patiño, a city council candidate in Union City. Patiño's campaign paid $705 to be part of the slate card, according to campaign finance records.
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Other Alameda County candidates also appear on
the mailer sent to independent voters Thursday.
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Patiño told the East Bay Citizen the misspellings are an error on the vendors part and likely not some sort of prank. Patiño's campaign triple-checked a proof of the mailer beforehand, he said. "I can't see how someone would pay that kind of money for a slate card just to make a joke."
The mailer was produced by PJF Communications, a consulting firm based in Sacramento that specializes in non-partisan voters guides and other communication services.
The phone number listed on the State Secretary of State's web site for "No Party Preference Voter Guide" leads to a Sacramento accounting and payroll firm that is also a vendor for the group. An email to the company has not been returned.
UPDATE: Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m. Patiño said the vendor apologized for the error and a corrected mailer was sent to voters today. He posted the corrected version below on his campaign Facebook page.
lol swallowable.... I love eb.
ReplyDeleteJust cant stop laughing. :)
I got this in the mail Thursday and thought "This has to be a joke..." Also, have others noticed that sfgate.com is no longer proofing what goes up on their site (articles riddled with spelling and grammatical errors on a daily basis)? The dumbing-down continues...
ReplyDeleteugh! lol
ReplyDeleteBy MW:
ReplyDeleteWhenever someone makes a statement and/or takes a position that is many major levels far below even severely mentally retarded, it should be reported the major relevant items in regard to that person, and including which high schools and colleges that person attended.
For example, some years ago a co-worker wrote a letter in which she described herself as a "scary person," and although it was obvious she was trying to say she was an easily scared person.
But it is truly amazing that high schools, and sometimes also colleges, are awarding diplomas to persons who are far too stupid to even be rated as severely mentally retarded.
By MW:
ReplyDeleteHopefully it will not become common to refer to politicians as swallowable, since most politicians are so toxic and totally rotten to the core, that therefore anyone who took a out of the typical politician would at the very minimum get extremely sick, and in fact probably die from food poisoning.
By MW:
ReplyDeleteIn regard to my previous post of 1:48PM, I omitted one word due to my horrible typing and need for reading glasses.
Specifically, the beginning of the next to last line should read: "who took a BITE out of the typical politician"