Wednesday, November 18th, 2009...1:08 pm
Stimulus Dollars Keeping at Least One Republican Employed
At the suggestion of one dedicated reader, I sifted through Shaun McCluskey’s last campaign finance report. He sent in an amended one due to a last minute infusion of cash and his last minute spending on hit pieces on Richard Fimbres.
It’s no big surprise: various members of Jim Click’s family as well as his employees maxed out to McCluskey’s campaign during it’s waning days. Click, no doubt, benefitted from the “cash for clunkers” program that helped move cars of his lots earlier this year. Those stimulus dollars percolated through the economy and into the hands of the political consultants that designed those hit pieces. John Maynard Keynes would be so proud.
Oh, and the firm that designed those pieces: Lincoln Strategy Group, formerly known as Sproul and Associates. Yes, that Nathan Sproul. The campaign spent a total of $72,778.16 on the mailers, plus an additional $15,161.54 on a spate of last minute robo-calls (because people love those). By the way, add that up and that is more than Fimbres spent on his entire campaign. Folks who have seen Sproul’s work before aren’t too surprised by this. All the hallmarks were there: the expensive oversized mailer, the iffy (at best) allegations of criminality, little or nothing positive to say about the candidate they are sent on behalf of, and a price tag that eats up an ungodly portion of a campaign budget. At least we can say that unlike many of the campaigns Sproul has been engaged in up north, this one failed in Tucson.
6 Comments
November 18th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Failed, you’ve got to be kidding or your smoking to much of that loco weed. Since you are big on research please show us the number of Republican vs Democrats that are registered to vote in the City of Tucson. Explain how both Shaun and Ben came this close unless the Democratic voters are fed up with the way the City Council is running the Tucson. This was the highest number of Democratic crossover voter’s in the last 20 years. Kyl got about a 5% crossover. The projections are that in January’s canvass we will probably see about a 15% Democratic crossover. You can’t spin the fact that the voters are VERY unhappy with the current City Council.
November 18th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
I’m sorry for saying “failed.” Obviously, I misread the canvass and didn’t notice that as a result of the last minute and extremely well funded attack on Fimbres, Shaun McCluskey was elected the new councilmember for Ward Five.
I won’t make that mistake again.
November 18th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
You shouldn’t have used the word failed. Fail means didn’t succeed. Obviously, Fimbres is no longer in office.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Walt:
Explain how close is 175 and 4573, the actual differences between Buehler-Garcia and Uhlich and McClusky and Richard Fimbres.
Ben came close, Shaun lost by more than six percent, despite spending $12,000 grand more, thanks to Jim Click and his employees, their spouses and families giving $410, so that Shameless Shaun could send out his unfounded, untrue and unsubstantiated hit pieces – even after being proven such in several publications and this blog!
Going further, it is interesting that the Republican’s the alleged party of fiscal prudence, a “businessman” spent $22 grand on robo-calls, $54,000 on mailers and the rest on radio advertisements, thanks to his former boss, Jim Click, whom he sold used cars to.
Excuse me Walt, but it was Richard Fimbres who showed fiscal prudence, as he did with GOHS, Pima Community College and the Pima County Sheriff’s Office!
Excuse me Walt, but it was Richard Fimbres who ran his campaign on issues, not innuendo!
Excuse me Walt, but it is Richard Fimbres who won the election, by a convincing margin!
November 19th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Richard Fimbres cares nothing for little brown people. Only an enlightened white man like McClusky can save them.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Shouldn’t a big time Republican like Jim Click have put his money where his mouth is, and refused to participate in ‘cash for clunkers?’ I mean, if he really feels that the stimulus is a waste of government money then he could have just refused to be a part of it.
Why didn’t he?