[ComCom] Fwd: Article on 2006

[Eli Beckerman]

My concern is that it was more of a media event and less of a
celebration. I know there was lots of pressure on to accommodate all
of the media but I think its important that we prioritize our
supporters first in everything that we do because, well, the media
will never be on our side.

On 11/9/06, Colby E. Peterson <saphron at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >> Please don't follow
> >> the example of the election-night so-called slate party at the
> >> Hibernian which was turned into a Grace Ross media event and did not
> >> follow the suggestions made by other candidates.
>
>
> And I just need to say something- since we're being objective about
> things right now. Who got the media to the event and under what
> pretext? I got the media to the event under the pretext of Grace's
> media coordinator, not the GRP comm director. The media got to the
> election night event and they were there under the assumption that
> they were covering Grace. Yes, it was a slate party. But it never
> "turned into a Grace Ross media event," it started out as Grace Ross
> media event. Jill had a media coordinator as well, Pat Keaney, and he
> never mentioned anything to me about who he had booked or if I was
> booking people to cover Jill or Jamie. He asked me what media had
> come and I told him. That being said, once they were there, they
> covered Martina, Jill, and Jamie (Jamie got a great photo in the
> Somerville Journal.)
>
> - Colby
>
> On Nov 9, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Gracegrnrnbw at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Merelice- the down ticket vote is a measure of my campaigning too -
> > so don't
> > make the mistake of thinking that we don't run as a ticket becase
> > in the
> > public's mind we still do.
> >
> > as for setting the tone of the race - that is pretty universally
> > accepted -
> > by the other gubernatorial candidates, media people from across the
> > political
> > spectrum, leaders in a number of differrent movements, tons of the
> > general
> > public - perhaps the term "grown up" is judgemental in a way I
> > don't like but
> > setting the moral tone - there is no question.
> >
> > And it was the honesty and common sense quality of my message that
> > moved our
> > party from "moon-nut" in the minds of the public to being taken
> > seriously
> > across the political spectrum.
> >
> > So while the votes I garnered in no way reflect it - the response
> > on the
> > ground make it clear that because of my camapgin (and NOT my
> > camapign alone), the
> > party has reached a level of respect it has not achieved before.
> >
> > As for the media, the cameras were in fact there for my campaign
> > (Fox had
> > caught me every day for the previous five days;; five TV stations,
> > AP, Worc. T& G
> > all covered my going to vote).   Neither Jill nor Jamie asked for any
> > particulars about how the press conference was run.   I brought
> > them up to be behind
> > me so they would be in all of the coverage the press conference
> > received - on
> > purpose - to give them as much visbility and credit as possible.
> >
> > Is there some way to stop competing about the vote count?   and it
> > would be
> > nice to have the work we did treated with the same respect within
> > the party
> > that we are getting on the ground and in the political analysts'
> > and other
> > candidates' circles.   Otherwise , if for no other reason, we
> > cannot possibly manage
> > an accurate debrief -
> >
> > Love, grace
> > In a message dated 11/9/06 11:47:15 AM, merelice at gmail.com writes:
> >
> >
> >> Colby,
> >> Since you were also Grace's campaign communications coordinator, I
> >> trust you will be careful about taking a party-wide view of this
> >> release.
> >>
> >> The first paragraph should be something newsworthy, not an
> >> introduction of all our candidates. That's old news.
> >>
> >> Looked at objectively, Grace did not succeed in regaining ballot
> >> status for the Party or breaking through to new heights in getting
> >> votes. To say that Jill accomplished this is quite appropriate. This
> >> is not to downplay Grace's wonderful accomplishments. But certain
> >> things can be stated as facts and other things border on opinion.
> >> When
> >> the Party expresses opinion, it has more credibility if it can
> >> back it
> >> up with a quote from another source such as the McNamara column about
> >> Grace (and many other complimentary articles about her).
> >>
> >> By all means supplement John's draft with a quote from the co-chairs
> >> and with input from other candidates. Some of your added suggestions
> >> are important. But with all due respect to Grace, it comes across as
> >> too Grace-oriented. Especially inappropriate would be to refer to her
> >> as the "grown-up" in the race since that is a direct quote of a Globe
> >> column about Jill Stein when she ran for Governor. Please don't
> >> follow
> >> the example of the election-night so-called slate party at the
> >> Hibernian which was turned into a Grace Ross media event and did not
> >> follow the suggestions made by other candidates.
> >>
> >> Regarding Dion, I suggest that buried somewhere in the middle you
> >> make
> >> a simple statement like the following:
> >>
> >> "Also running as a Green-Rainbow candidate without the Party's
> >> endorsement was Dion Robbins-Zust from [wherever]."
> >>
> >> How did he do? For that matter, how did Owen do? An email to the
> >> party
> >> with all the results would be welcomed.
> >>
> >> Thanks, Merelice
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11/9/06, Colby E. Peterson <saphron at verizon.net> wrote:
> >>> The press release that John sent to me was meant as a starting
> >>> point,
> >>> and does not represent everything that the other campaigns would
> >>> like
> >>> to see in a GRP release. The first paragraph should introduce the
> >>> candidates, we should also mention the results of our legislative
> >>> races. I think we need more emphasis on the fact that we are an
> >>> official party now as well, and we should have a quote from one of
> >>> the co-chairs inviting everyone who voted Green-Rainbow to now
> >>> register in the party, so we can have permanment ballot status and
> >>> continue to compete on the same level of the other official parties.
> >>> This might be a two-pager. :)
> >>>
> >>> Should we mention Dion Robbins-Zust? I think we should remind the
> >>> media that he ran without our endorsement, or is this just beating a
> >>> dead horse? Thoughts?
> >>>
> >>> Would anyone like to volunteer to draft a comprehensive press
> >>> release
> >>> that includes parts of John's press release as a *starting point*
> >>> but
> >>> includes other aspects? Grace said that a GRP press release should
> >>> contain these aspects as well, that John may or may not be aware of:
> >>>
> >>> * the media campaign that allowed us to participate in almost all of
> >>> the debates (contrasting four years ago)
> >>> * the fact that the Ross campaign changed the tone of this campaign
> >>> season as acting as the "grown up" and moral authority, drawing us
> >>> back to the issues... and consequently...
> >>> * ...the coverage from the right-wing media, including the DePetro
> >>> incident which made national news and led to even more calls for
> >>> civility in the political realm
> >>>
> >>> Grace, I know you had other things you wanted to add, but I can't
> >>> seem to find the wording... care to take a stab? (forgive the
> >>> violent
> >>> idiom, hehe)
> >>>
> >>> - Colby
> >>
> >>
> >
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