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Sam Yoon makes it official
By adamg on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 7:55am
Calls for an elected school committee, and notes that Boston's three favorite pastimes are sports, politics and revenge.
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Those drapes or that mixer?
Which is a more effective background?
Nothing says filial piety
Like filming your campaign ad in your mom's living room.
Everyone is trying to be
Everyone is trying to be like Joe everyman right now. In the past these ads would have been done in an office setting, or an impressive looking place that implied power. All of these youtube ads are in kitchens and living rooms, and the Yoon ad is off kilter, he is too far to the left! Oh thats a joke waiting to happen (Im not familiar enough with his politics to know if he is a lefty or not, but if he were that would be quite funny.)
Too far to the left or too tall?
The only distracting thing for me was the fact that the top of his head was cut off for most of the video. But, yeah, easy enough for me to criticize; it's not like I'm running for office myself (or making videos, for that matter).
I think its a reasonable
I think its a reasonable point to make, Im assuming it was done in more then one take. Would it have been that hard to look at it and move the camera back a bit?
Bestbuy Discount?
The top of his website looks like the top of Bestbuy's site right down to the search button
I'm not voting for him
Until he goes through puberty.
Sam Yoon Drinking Game:
-Each time he says "young," take a drink.
Here's a fun experiment to try with a kid
Take a photo of Michael Flaherty, show the kid and ask her how old she thinks he is. Then repeat with a photo of Sam Yoon.
I will bet you $100 that you will not get a single kid who correctly identifies both as being 39. One guess which one they'll think is way older and one which they think is way younger (note: Yes, I tried it out on the kidlet and, sure enough, she pegged Flaherty as being around 50, and Yoon as being around 30, which is older than I would have guessed).
I did not know that they
I did not know that they were both the same age, very interesting. Im sure its party genetic, and partly it looks like Yoon keeps himself very healthy... Should we punish him for living a healthy lifestyle, which makes him look younger? Also once again the Yoon attacks seem to be coming from Anons... Im no Yoon supporter, but what Ive seen online are allot of anon cheap shots here and elsewhere against him.
I'm just jealous
I didn't look that young when I was 25.
It's like he's got some freakishly ugly painting in his attic or something...
Listings of candidates for Mayor. Websites. Addresses for email.
a.
Who are the other people that may campaign for Mayor besides Sam Yoon, Kevin McCrea, Tom Menino, Michael F. Flaherty, ....? , ?...
b.
What websites or addresses for email are available for people to communicate with the candidates?...
b.
Here, at least for the Web sites. But you know that already, don't you? Because I link to it every single time you ask this question.
LOL
Nice.
Other people interested in campaigning for Mayor.
Who are the other people that indicated their interest in campaigning for Mayor?... not listed at http://www.universalhub.com/2009-elections.html
It appears others been indicated around the varied news services, blogs, whatnot...
John Tobin
And he says he's not running.
Ralph Martin.
And he says he's not running.
Tom Menino.
And he says he's too busy running the city to think about it.
Thanks For The Plug Sam Yoon
Thanks dude for Unbeknownstly (is that a word) plugging my website.
http://blog.sportspoliticandrevenge.com/
Three favorite pastimes
And the problem is Politics.
Revenge? Nah, that's going just fine.
An elected school committee
An elected school committee will not solve much. It was a mess back in the day.
I think I agree
I grew up in a small city with an elected school board. The "non-partisan" campaigns to get elected to a position promising lots of headaches and a stipend-level salary were hotly contested and at times ugly, and the resulting decisions of the elected body were often infused with politics.
Appointed vs. elected school boards could be one of those six of one, half-dozen of the other situations.
Plus many of the people who
Plus many of the people who you would want to sit on the boards do not have the knowledge on how to get elected.
In the past, it was actually
In the past, it was actually the opposite. You had politicians who knew little about the schools running for School Committee as a stepping stone to higher positions.
That was my point, the
That was my point, the people who should be there could not compete with the politicians who had networks to raise money and get foot soldiers from.
Gotcha. Misread your comment
Gotcha. Misread your comment before. Apologies.
I didn't mind the drapes or
I didn't mind the drapes or the cut-off of the top of his head. I was interested in his assertion that Boston is famous for politics, sports and revenge, and that politics is the problem. So..... we need more sports and revenge? That one really didn't work, did it?
He's got the Together We Can, Change You Can Believe In zero-content statements down. Now he needs to say what he's going to change from the Mumbles regime.
Well we have quite a bit in
Well we have quite a bit in the area of sports, I dont think we need more of that.
So that leaves revenge, lets get on it boys!
Revenge you can believe in!
Your ass is grass, Mumbles!
Abolish the School Committee
The appointed School Committee is a complete waste of resources. Abolish it, and make the Superintendent another mayoral appointee.
Interesting idea. I assume
Interesting idea. I assume that would require a charter change.