RE: Political ads with phone numbers

[Larry Weil <kc1ih@mac.com>]

At 12:50 PM -0500 11/3/02, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>On 3 Nov 2002 at 11:34, Paul Hopfgarten wrote:
>
>>  She (NH's O'Brien) is banking on the "MA resident moving to NH" voters to
>>  check off her name for "Governor's Council" (We do NOT call it that here
>>  in NH) thinking their voting for MA Governor.
>
>It's an old political trick, the most successful example of which 
>was John F. Kennedy, who
>was elected state treasurer of Massachusetts three times in the 
>1950s without even
>campaigning.  The trick failed when he tried to run for governor in 
>1960.  People knew in 1960
>that Senator John F. Kennedy was running for President, not governor.

I have met the person under discussion, and her name really is 
Shannon O'Brien.  So what else can she do?

-- 
Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH