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Meeker Hits the Small Screen? 

Wells Dunbar  Fri Apr 25, 12:04pm , 2008
Tags: City Council Elections, Jason Meeker, Lee Leffingwell, Randi Shade, Jennifer Kim


Jason Meeker: Friends in high places
Photo by John Anderson
Speaking of Randi Shade and TV ads, Newsdesk received this note from an informed reader earlier today:
Just saw a commercial on MSNBC (10:15 AM — a video version of the full page ad that is running in the Chron this week from [Discount Electronics CEO and former Jason Meeker campaign treasurer] Rick Culleton. Photos of Lee and Jen. Photos of Jason and Randi. Highlights the pay raise. Will have to pay more attention next cycle. We will know the size of the buy in next week's 8 day out report, but the candidates do have the right to ask how much the buy is … but for now:

Big fonts — big pictures – big chip on shoulder!

Jason probably loves it — but I would not want to be a part of this if I were Randi — makes it look like she paid for the ad (unless you know the scoop on who Rick is) and she is bundled in an ad criticizing Lee Leffingwell. I think that was intentional. To make it look like Jason and Randi are running on the same platform.

The strange thing here is that Kim was the first council member to go in whole-hog on RG4N. And now she's not only been thrown under the bus, but backed over a few times for good measure.

Weird.

 

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It's crappy here too. guest Apr 28, 2008 - 02:09 am
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/opinion/27edwards.html

Yeah. Whaddup? Deb Apr 28, 2008 - 09:20 pm
The guy's entry issue is RG4N and he's flattening Kim...for the pay raise she voted for but didn't take (he fails to mention that last bit, yet that's what most folks call her on: her grandstanding).

And Kim's loss of some major clout (police, firefighters, esp.) and key enviro and neighborhood-friendly votes that pissed off some key developers doesn't exactly put her in the Leff "beholden to special interests" category. She's only beholden to her issue whims, while the top-dog special interests are backing Shade.

Yo, Culleton. Next time talk to someone who has a little experience in the game before slapping down $1000s on ads. Get some real impact out of your investment.

All you've bought so far is a collective "huh?" from Austinites.




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