{"id":11519,"date":"2010-04-14T01:24:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T01:24:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-14T01:24:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T01:24:51","slug":"whitmans-propaganda-goes-out-to-500000-voters-because-she-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/14\/whitmans-propaganda-goes-out-to-500000-voters-because-she-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitman&#8217;s Propaganda Goes Out to 500,000 voters. Because She Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think about this for a second, and think of the resources that must have been dedicated to such a project:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman&#8217;s campaign is sending out about half a million copies of her 48-page policy booklet to households across California, most of them Republican, said Whitman press secretary Sarah Pompei.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/04\/meg-whitman-sen.html#ixzz0l0zrMK3g\">SacBee<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s half a million copies. The postage alone costs several hundred thousand dollars. And then there&#8217;s the fact that publication of this thing probably costs quite a bit to print. It&#8217;s 48 pages in stunning color. That kind of print run plus postage is going to run you about a buck per copy (perhaps more).<\/p>\n<p>But, don&#8217;t worry, the profligacy ends the day she becomes governor. &nbsp;Then, she&#8217;ll really show how spending massive amounts of campaign cash can turn into a recipe for spending controls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about this for a second, and think of the resources that must have been dedicated to such a project:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman&#8217;s campaign is sending out about half a million copies of her 48-page policy booklet to households across California, most of them Republican, said Whitman press secretary Sarah Pompei.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/04\/meg-whitman-sen.html#ixzz0l0zrMK3g\">SacBee<\/a>) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s half a million copies. The postage alone costs several hundred thousand dollars. And then there&#8217;s the fact that publication of this thing probably costs quite a bit to print. It&#8217;s 48 pages in stunning color. That kind of print run plus postage is going to run you about a buck per copy (perhaps more).<\/p>\n<p>But, don&#8217;t worry, the profligacy ends the day she becomes governor. &nbsp;Then, she&#8217;ll really show how spending massive amounts of campaign cash can turn into a recipe for spending controls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[415,4467],"class_list":["post-11519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-415","tag-4467"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2ZN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}