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sacramento connect NPR.org“I’ll Have Another” won the Kentucky Derby and now the Preakness this weekend. Next up, the final leg of the Triple Crown at Belmont Park in New York. A nice surprise. California-trained horses finished first, second and third in the Preakness. I had the third place horse “Creative Cause,” since I don’t like to bet on favorites. No Texas-trained horses were in sight.
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I noticed this batch of campaign signs as I filled up the Chevy truck near the “76″ station in Nevada City this morning.
The “So Nate, aren’t 2 terms enough???” sign was poked in the ground under a “Nate Beason (for) Supervisor” sign that was more appropriately placed inside a fence according to code.
The “Elect George Smyrnos” sign is about 25 yards away from the Beason signs, across the street. (Smyrnos is running a negative campaign against incumbent Judge Tom Anderson, fueled by inflammatory/uninformed columns by The Union’s publisher/editor that are posted on Smyrnos’ website).
At least this Smyrnos sign carries a “positive” message (elect me!), though I saw one inappropriately poked in the ground by the attractive “Welcome to Nevada County” display on Hwy. 49 a few weeks ago. Whoever put it there showed poor taste, and it has since been removed.
I presume the same people who supported Sam Aanestad in his criticism of a website allegedly linked to “dirty tricks” campaigning by Doug LaMalfa the other day also would object to posting negative campaign signs in our neighborhoods. I would.
Negative campaigning is for losers. Let’s send them a message at the polls — and when we see it happening.
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Editor’s note: Once I was with another journalist who had come upon a press-weary Bill Gates backstage at a tech trade show in Atlanta. I figured she could help me ask him some tough questions about Microsoft’s antitrust trial, a big deal at the time.
Instead, my fellow journalist whipped out a camera and asked Gates if he’d pose in a picture with her. It was a journalistic disaster, at least for me.
I’ve never come across this, however:
“Will Smith is in the middle of a press tour for “Men in Black 3″ and got more than he bargained for while in Moscow this week,” according to the Huffington Post.
“Smith was walking a press line when a reporter stopped him to give him a hug and attempted to kiss him.
“According to TMZ, the man involved in the incident is a TV reporter who likes to kiss celebrities.
The rest is here.
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