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Michael Flaherty desperately needs a proofreader

By adamg on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 10:16am

UPDATE: The Flaherty campaign says it does too proofread stuff; the posted copy was a proof that was corrected before it was actually handed out.

His press releases are full of errors and so are his campaign fliers (check the third blue box).

Via Jordan Newman (granted, a Yoon operative).

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By Rob on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 10:48am.

is "abysmalhaha"?

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By rajonrondo9 on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 10:56am.

Someone definitely should have caught that one. Still, he's right about needing more debates.

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By anon on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 10:59am.

Flaherty's campaign videos need some editing, too.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 1:43pm.

We have multiple times received an invitation to a civic event from the Mayor's wife that read "YOUR INVITED" (in quotes, actually!).

When people mentioned it, it was pooh poohed as elitism - and then, a year later:

"YOUR INVITED"

ARRRGHHHHHHH! Make a mistake once, you either simply messed up or are uneductated. Make it twice, you are wilfully ...

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By neilv on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 2:11pm.

And for those who don't get it? That was explained to me in late 2002 by Mark McKinnon, a longtime senior media adviser to Bush, who now runs his own consulting firm and helps the president. He started by challenging me. ''You think he's an idiot, don't you?'' I said, no, I didn't. ''No, you do, all of you do, up and down the West Coast, the East Coast, a few blocks in southern Manhattan called Wall Street. Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered 2 to 1 by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read The New York Times or Washington Post or The L.A. Times. And you know what they like? They like the way he walks and the way he points, the way he exudes confidence. They have faith in him. And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us. Because you know what those folks don't like? They don't like you!'' In this instance, the final ''you,'' of course, meant the entire reality-based community.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH....

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By jchristian on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 12:48pm.

Sounds like he knows exactly how to play to a candidate's strengths, and apparently was the one picked to work with Palin for her VP debate- in which she didn't utterly fail by average-viewers' standards.

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By theszak on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 1:58pm.

CERTIFIED CANDIDATES for MAYOR
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS 2009
http://www.cityofboston.gov/TridionImages/Certifie...
http://www.cityofboston.gov/elections/
Kevin R McCrea
Michael F Flaherty
Sam Yoon
Thomas M. Menino

CERTIFIED CANDIDATES for COUNCILLOR-at-LARGE
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS 2009
Doug Bennett
Robert L Fortes
Stephen J Murphy
John R Connolly
Andrew P Kenneally
Scotland M Willis
Sean H Ryan
Ego Ezedi
Tomas Gonzalez
Felix G Arroyo
Hiep Quoc Nguyen
Jean-Claude Sanon
Bill Trabucco
Ayanna S Pressley
Tito Jackson

CERTIFIED CANDIDATES for DISTRICT CITY COUNCILLOR
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS 2009

DISTRICT ONE
Chris Kulikoski
Salvatore LaMattina
Laura Garza

DISTRICT TWO
Bill Linehan

DISTRICT THREE
Maureen E Feeney

DISTRICT FOUR
Charles Calvin Yancey

DISTRICT FIVE
Rob Consalvo

DISTRICT SIX
John M Tobin Jr

DISTRICT SEVEN
Althea Garrison
Chuck Turner
Roy A. Owens
Carlos Tony Henriquez

DISTRICT EIGHT
Michael P Ross
Oscar T. Brookins

DISTRICT NINE
Mark S Ciommo
Benjamin Ian Narodick
Alex Selvig
Abigail Furey
http://www.cityofboston.gov/elections/
http://www.cityofboston.gov/TridionImages/Certifie...
http://www.cityofboston.gov/
TridionImages/Certified%20Candidates%202009%20Municipal%20Elections_tcm1-4141.pdf

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By neilv on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 2:12pm.

What are you trying to say with this post?

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By david_yamada on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 2:53pm.

...answer for himself, but to me it looks like we're going to see some interesting, CONTESTED races in the city elections this year.

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By BarryPace on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 4:45pm.

....should have fixed that before sending it out. Seems like a rookie mistake. Taking the time to check and recheck should never be skipped when you are the voice of a candidate. Not the first time this has happened with that campaign.

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