Pretty soon all decisions for business, residence, leisure, schooling, employment, retirement will be passed on the litmus of “Progressive” or “Regressive” state… The biggest threat to America is it’s Congress!
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Sad thing is they just double down on the ignorance.
Ah well I can dream can’t I?
So when will pence announce he wants to be president??
if he was testing the waters instead of using an exploratory committe, he already drowned.
Hoosier taxpayers, you have been screwed, AGAIN.
I know.
Invest in Indiana PR firms.
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Tax dollars is exactly what’s on my mind. I would think this was funny if I wasn’t paying for it. I just sent off my check for my quarterly estimated income tax.
I don’t know how Indianans turn it around but it is also clear they don’t believe the worst of it.
I’m kind of shcked that 85% of people should serve everyone regardless of sexuality. That only 15% think this is important is telling.
New ad campaign:
Indiana–come and find out just how stupid we are.
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this IS who they are. now they need to to try to make outsiders not believe what they really are. talk is cheap and b
A new poll finds 61% of Indianans backing an initiative to change from “the State of Indiana” to “the State of Derp”.
One of the legacies of the Cold War weapons systems development was a caste of management that became attached to their particular project like a tank, missile or plane avionics. As these people aged, the technology didn’t evolve like consumer products. Eventually, the US had created a market for ancient computer chips and other components, as well as old-school programming, that was almost exclusively a subset of military contractors and career civil servants. They continued to believe in super-costly Byzantine military programs because their pensions depended on them. Sometimes they appear before the Appropriations Committee.
By the same token, you still have this out-of-touch cadre of senior management invested in the Consumption Era notion of “branding,” Outsiders often confuse their discussion with goodwill of a business, but in fact this crop of management was raised on the notion that Machiavellian image distortion can somehow disguise the way things are in your firm, production chain, association or in this case, state. It can’t, due to this thingy called Internet. Yet here we have people that believe there are people out there loyal to the Indiana “brand.” Given Indiana’s legacy of massive environmental destruction, including the greatest deciduous deforestation on the continent and 8 major superfund sites, the state slogan should be something like, “I came to drink the RoundUp and eat the Zyprexa, but I stayed for the high mercury levels, the fact my town lets me keep two rusting cars on my front lawn, and the right to refuse service to queers.”
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Why announce you are hiring a PR firm to improve your image (sort of admitting something) ?
Wouldn’t some stealthy PR work better ?
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Unfortunately, only a small fraction of that 85% actually turn out to vote on election day.
The ballot box is the cheapest and most effective way to repair the state’s image–the voters need to clean house in the state capitol.
Can Democrats actually make that case in 2016? I have my doubts.
I’m a retired PR executive.
Here’s my submission for How to Repair Your Image after the Religious Freedom Debacle
Step One: Pass legislation outlawing discrimination against the LGBT community.
Step Two: Send me what you would have paid the PR firm you hired.
Thank you!
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Go to www.prwatch.org and search for Porter Novelli. They have an ethically challenged track record:
Writing fake letters
Creating fake grass roots organizations.
Using ties with then CA Gov. Ahnold to win a no-bid contract (later rescinded under criticism.)
Analysts are predicting a precipitous rise in lipstick futures on news of the concerted effort to disguise the pig. Shortages are expected.
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No amount of PR is going to make people forget what kind of people run the State of Indiana, and what kind of people elected them.
I don’t think I would have ‘announced’ that.
Kinda blunts the effectiveness of whatever they do, don’t you think?