[Lnc-business] Previous Notice - Constructive Candidate Portrayal

[Marc Allan Feldman]

I disagree.  Out p.r. people  should be skilled enough to see what
works best.  If you think you have better ideas, then present the
evidence and educate them.  Micro-managing p.r. by LNC policy makes no
 sense to me.  Shouldn't this be an issue for the communications
committee?

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rich,
>
> Thanks for the good question.
>
> The portion of my proposal in question reads (caps added for emphasis),
> "They shall not be portrayed as spoilers, either directly or by implication,
> such as NOTING that the candidate's performance spans the margin between two
> other candidates."
>
> With this wording, I would interpret it as the latter of the two things you
> asked about.  Poll results can be shown, even if they happen to demonstrate
> that the candidate spans the gap, so long as that detail is not the point of
> what they are saying.  The surrounding text should not about some "spoiler"
> angle of that data.  The news should rather be that the candidate may be
> poised to retain our ballot access, or that the polling may suggest we'll
> see better results than past similar candidates, or some other positive
> news, etc.
>
> -Alicia
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Rich Tomasso <rtomasso at lpnh.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/29/2014 4:59 PM, Alicia Mattson wrote:
>>>
>>> This new policy would require that our public communications portray our
>>> candidates as people seeking to change public policy by getting
>>> themselves elected, not as spoilers who get their kicks by just being
>>> monkey wrenches in some other candidate's election plans.
>>
>>
>> Just to clarify, with your proposed language, would an article
>> highlighting a poll showing the Libertarian candidate polling at greater
>> than the difference b/t his or her opponents be considered in violation of
>> this? Or should there simply be no text pointing out their percentage is
>> greater than the difference of the other candidates?
>>
>>
>> ~Rich
>>  Region 8 Rep
>>
>>
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