Maine Attorney General "Appalled By Yes On 1 Ads"

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Or would a point-by-point rebuttal of the opposition's script amount to little more than a distraction from more important work?

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Thanks for sharing this; there is definite value in knowing how they operate...

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

This requires more questions than answers.

When you ask people questions you are also giving them credit for their intelligence which morally requires them to reciprocate.

This "script" was written by someone who is untrained and unskilled. It makes me furious to think that these are the tactics that were successful in California. Fortunately, we seem to be doing a much better job in Maine.

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The fury re Prop 8 is understandable, but there will always be a tipping point that can be reached whereby the quality of the script is of little concern when the campaign is capable of mobilizing 100,000 Yes on 8 canvassers.  They tipped the scales and then some in that previous contest.

In Maine, it doesn't look like our opposition is anywhere close to repeating Prop 8's amazing organizational feats.  

And so, yes, I'm probably wasting time even worrying about SFMM's amateur (albeit still offensive) script.

I'm gonna stop gabbing now and try to think of something productive to do.  For what it's worth, it's been a pleasure following and learning from your writing during the past months, David.  Cheers!

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Everything to do with schools.

36 seconds of Jeff Flint, "Yes on 1" campaign manager, explaining how he and Frank Schubert won "Yes on 8" in California:

"Before we click to the next ad, in terms of one of the other principles we talked about - message discipline - and also - surrounding people with it - we launched that ad in conjunction with a statewide bus tour with the Wirthlins that we flew out to California to appear at the launch of that. And we did a lot of press just around that because that was, again, as Frank mentioned the point, where we had made the decision we were going to bet the farm on this argument over whether gay marriage would be taught in public schools. And so we made sure that every message medium in which we were communicating was on that point - not only paid media, but also the earned media."