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Candidate running because state rep wouldn't talk to her won't talk to a reporter
By adamg on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 1:20pm
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photo of Julian?
David Ertischek at the Transcript reports on the strange saga of Pamela Julian, who told a certain blogger she was running against incumbent state Rep. Mike Rush because he wouldn't return her call on a particular issue but who now is apparently avoiding Ertischek:
Can you think of a politician who doesn't want press about their candidacy? I have politicians calling me when they want to have a hearing. They drop story ideas in my lap, send me press releases, and have their staff call me about attending senior citizen events, a baseball game, greeting an injured child at the hospital or singing the national anthem.
Politicians want press, and most like to use the press to their advantage. I know I would do the same if I were a politician. Pamela Julian is not politically savvy in this way. ...
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Note to self
Note to self:
When running for political office it is imperative that you talk to the press, the sooner the better. In fact while I have my attention I would advise that if you live outside the district, have no name recognition and apparently have a weird work history that you should do an Irish Jig if some reporter comes sniffing around for a story.
It seems to me like this reporter would have written a good story about her if she had only answered her door and chatted with him.
As A Libertarian Candidate...
(There's a headline that screams "Stay Away! Don't Read This! Screed Coming!" Nope. Relax.)
... I was always dancing jigs just to try to get noticed. The ONLY time an actual reporter called ME and asked for an interview, I was so damn happy I paid for his breakfast.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Well in the public relations
Well in the public relations biz they say all press is good press...
Maybe we are getting it wrong! Maybe its better to have a reporter HATE you and write several nasty columns about you over one who just likes you and gives you a paragraph in his column as an aside.
NAH if the local press hates you even if you get elected they make your life hell, everything you do comes down with a negative slant. Its much better to be nice to em.
yeah, I show up at people's doorsteps and demand stuff too!
Hi, "Matt". David made an assumption- namely that she was home and available to come to the door.
He presents zero evidence that she was actually present and available. If you come knocking at a stranger's house, you can't demand anything; you are a VISITOR. You leave a message, you wait to get called back.
Which is precisely what she did- barely a few hours later.
'can'tidate'
heheheh
Let me translate that all for you
Wow, talk about a sense of entitlement.
"Boo hoo. I need to have people who are desperately craving attention send me story ideas. I have no idea how to handle someone who is a perfectly legitimate candidate, but who isn't cramming easy-to-cover baby-kissing photo ops the electorate doesn't give a shit about. And because she's making me WORK to find out stuff about her, I resent that. So I'm going to bitch-slap her to hell in an opinion piece to try and make her lose the election, or manipulate her into finally granting an interview."
Seriously, reading through it, he comes off as a stalking, needy little self-aggrandizing twit, and spends virtually every conversation either lecturing or insulting her about how gosh-darn important HE is. He's like a bad date that calls you over and over, then starts insulting you, then calls again and leaves voicemails telling you how great they are and how dumb they are to not go out with you.
David: take a hint. Sit back, relax. She's got your phone number (and email address, and fax number, and AIM, and cell phone, I'm sure, by now.) When she's ready to talk, she will. Until then, do your background homework, prep some questions and story angle ideas, and be prepared for when she gives you a press release or grants an interview. The point of representatives is to REPRESENT. Not kiss your ass, or babies for that matter.
BTW a similar war seems to
BTW a similar war seems to have broken out over this story, linked via UH, on blue mass group
http://www.bluemassgroup.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=...
NEVER file and pull papers without being prepared to get a knock on your from the local press. Maybe she should have been ready for that ahead of time...
If you google her name the story comes up, followed by Bluemass on it, followed by UH, followed by her classmate.com profile, followed by a blog blogging on the blogs about the story in question.
Someone is not prepared to run, she her some mercy and toss her to the side of the road and move on.
Maybe she's a real candidate
Who's just waiting for a real reporter to interview her.
That her phone number is unlisted and she won't give an immediate interview to every door-knocker who says he's a reporter for a supermarket throwaway rag (geez, he doesn't even have business cards) seems unlikely to bother too too many people.
I think you're confusing it with the Bulletin
The Transcript's the one you have to pay for :-).
In any case, though, if you're running for state rep in West Roxbury, you really need to be on good terms with the Transcript and the Bulletin if you want to get any attention, because the Globe's sure not going to cover your race - unless it's two days before the election and you send out lying palm cards. And, yeah, there's a paper in the Brookline sliver of the district, but, hey, guess who its reporters work with?
Maybe it's the recovering reporter in me, but I didn't think knocking on her door, taking no for an answer, then going back and waiting for a phone call was exactly stalkerish behavior.
Right you are
What are the chances she's never heard of the Transcript either?
Since she seems to be running as "Not Mike Rush," it should't matter that much.
I didn't think knocking on
Except after she called him back, he *didn't* wait. He kept calling her, again and again.
If you dont know about the
If you dont know about the newspapers in a district then maybe you shouldnt be running for office.
The fact that she didnt have a contact at the paper she could call and have help telling him she will talk to him soon speaks volumns about her as a candidate. She claims to have been representing a group that was trying to get something done and this big mean politician wouldnt help. I would assume that maybe she would have built a relationship with the press maybe? The beauty with these small "rags" is that anyone with half an iota of influence can pick up a phone and get themselves a guest oped piece in the next edition.
Not Matt Benedetti
Just got e-mail from Matt Benedetti, who wanted to be the third candidate in the race, to clarify that the Matt posting here is not him.