First of all, I want to thank Rob, Mange, Horatio, Vlad and any others who I missed that said some nice things about my
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Mangekyou — 8 years ago(November 16, 2017 06:26 PM)
This is addressed to Mange and I believe your son tried to contact me on Facebook.
Well "Mayor" I did tell him to go to Novi and hold a campaign sign up at a polling stating in support of your run but he was accosted by a group of savage feminazis with purple hair and one of them appeared to have a freshly done nose job, (his words not mine)
But I'm not sure about him making any direct contact with his highness on FB, that would be grossly inappropriate and insubordinate behavior. -
hungrytheheretic — 8 years ago(November 16, 2017 06:49 PM)
To all those who thought the impersonators were me, let me put it to you this way, if someone impersonating me sounds too crazy, or is saying things that a public figure would never say, it's probably me.
No ****.
Enjoy.
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hungrytheheretic — 8 years ago(November 16, 2017 09:40 PM)
What I find strange is when it's really me, and I'm being rational and calm, you're skeptical.
Get da **** out of here.
When it's some crazy person spewing non-sense, everyone jumps to the conclusion that it's me.
It's because you are nuts, why wouldn't anyone assume it's you???
You're awctually talking just like an insane person who is trying to pass for rational, right now, so I totally believe it's you, Shredder.
Enjoy.
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Mayor_Shredder — 8 years ago(November 16, 2017 11:19 PM)
Rob, I've got to say, when you do something like this, you learn a lot about yourself too. One thing I learned is that I'm easily troll-able. I know, laugh away, it was obvious to you all. But for me, I thought I had self control. Until I got trolled during the campaign.
On one of the social media apps I was using to spread my message, there was a woman who was demanding that all candidates answer her questions. We were reading what she was asking and texting each other (the other candidates) that she's a troll and to not take the bait. But me being me, took the bait to one of her questions and next thing I know, I'm in a back and forth with a troll. My replies were all well thought out and articulate, but that didn't matter. I still got the typical troll responses, that kept me responding. After the third reply, I got a text from a colleague, asking me to delete my replies. Because even though they were articulate, the opposition can still tear it apart, word for word and use it against me. So I deleted everything.
After that, my staff took away my social media privileges and told me that I'm not allowed to reply until they discussed what I should reply and how to word it first. Gotta say, I'm so glad I had these people. I can't say enough about how Awesome my staff was. Without them, my campaign would be down the toilet. -
Mayor_Shredder — 8 years ago(November 17, 2017 12:23 AM)
I'm not interested in fighting with you guys. I came back to answer questions because I thought you all might be interested knowing what the experience was like. But if not, then I won't be posting here. If anyone has any questions, I'll answer them. If not, I'll go back to my awesome life, and you all can go back to your miserable ones. Have a wonderful life.
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Mayor_Shredder — 8 years ago(November 17, 2017 01:01 AM)
I raised $15,000, spent about $5,000 of my own money. It occurred in waves. The first three months was building the infrastructure. Website, social media, forming the Committee to Elect and hiring the staff. The second wave were the ads and flyers that we mailed or handed out at various events. I probably spent just short of $20,000 total. I'll have to look at my finance report for the exact amount, but I'm too lazy to pull that out.
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Mayor_Shredder — 8 years ago(November 17, 2017 01:29 AM)
I can give you a better cost breakdown if you want. My goal was to reach 10,000 voters, but I was only able to reach out to about 5,000. So, double the 20K and I should be able to reach my goal.
To give you an idea of what I was up against. The mayor already had $30,000 in funding before the campaign started, and he doubled that during the campaign. Plus, because he's buddy buddy with several land developers, he was able to put signs up all over the city where I was not allowed to.
You said in another thread that it's hard to unseat an incumbent. That couldn't be closer to the truth when you're up against a giant with 42 years of public experience, 4 times the money and has some powerful people as connections. -
Mangekyou — 8 years ago(November 17, 2017 01:40 AM)
You said in another thread that it's hard to unseat an incumbent. That couldn't be closer to the truth when you're up against a giant with 42 years of public experience, 4 times the money and has some powerful people as connections.
Thats why you spend the next two years, biding your time build some bridges of your own raise some funds, charm some co-eds to go door to door for you passing out flyers and get the woman vote and then find some 30 something-year-old woman that claimed that she was groped by him when she was sixteen, then step in and turn to the feminist vote, discredit the old career crooked politician and claim your victory.
If you win, I will personally fly up there to congratulate you, well to visit my son (assuming he's still there, then congratulate you as well.
dont give up dude.