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* Um, she?…

* The Question: The most memorable piece of campaign mail you’ve ever received?

posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 2:49 pm

Comments

Lol!

Comment by Deft Wing Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 2:51 pm
Copy editing is a lost art…

Comment by Independent Retired Lawyer Journalist Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 2:51 pm
I received a piece recently with Speaker Madigan, Donald Trump, and Hillary Clinton morphed into one really ugly person. It featured the Speaker’s face, Trump’s hair, and a pant suit.

I kid you not.

Comment by Old Shepherd Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 2:52 pm
Tom Cullerton and the gender pronouns he controls.

Comment by Team Sleep Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 2:58 pm
Old Shepherd beat me to it. Received the same mailer. Madigan’s face on Hillary. Used to tie a challenger to Madigan, Hillary and Trump all at the same time.

I guess HRO got the ok to start using Trump as an anchor on Dem opponents? We all knew he’d lose Illinois, but the tactic of tying Dems to Trump is a new one to me.

Comment by illini97 Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 2:59 pm
>I received a piece recently with Speaker Madigan, Donald Trump, and Hillary Clinton morphed into one really ugly person. It featured the Speaker’s face, Trump’s hair, and a pant suit.

You beat me to it. I was oddly impressed.

Comment by Earnest Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 2:59 pm
Well, if suburban families were looking for a “she” (or, for that matter, anyone with hair), no wonder they weren’t able to find the good senator. Sheesh. Could they make their copy-and-paste approach to campaigning any more evident?!?

Comment by Commander Norton Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:00 pm
I didn’t receive this but the HRO ran a mailer in 2004 against Bill Grunloh that featured Rep. Grunloh wearing a cowboy hat and bandanna. That took the cake.

Comment by Team Sleep Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:01 pm
The one where I personally killed a baby. Quite a work of art.

Comment by walker Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:02 pm
===I guess HRO got the ok===

That’s a Proft mailer.

Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:03 pm
===I guess HRO got the ok===

=That’s a Proft mailer.=

Ah. As usual, you are correct, sir.

Comment by illini97 Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:08 pm
I’ve always enjoyed the “Halloween” mail piece both sides roll out…

Bats, “scary”, “Boo”… Taxes, Crime, Seniors… Everyone gets “scared” but the other candidate can save you!

You know they’re coming, it’s how clever the “scare” is that makes them memorable.

Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:09 pm
I am guessing this typo has happened more than once but given his abortion platform I definitely enjoyed Pat O’Malley’s promise to me to root out PUBIC corruption when he ran in 2002 for governor. That was the first thing that came to mind.

Honorable mentions though to a weird fundraising letter from crazy Nevada Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle that somehow found its way to me while I was a registered Dem living in Chicago.

I also miss those fake newspapers that Aaron Schock’s campaign put out. I think for his last election they had some picture of him from a summer job at a gravel pit in high school as a reason to vote for him ten years later. The picture just reminded me had no real world career experience outside politics.

Comment by hisgirlfriday Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:10 pm
First his newspapers now his mail pieces. Proft really needs to take a little bit of all that money he’s making and hire a copy editor.

Comment by Dandy Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:11 pm
Vote for Joe.

Comment by pool boy Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:11 pm
Old Shepard and Earnest, I got the same one. Truly horrific. You can’t “unsee” that.

Etched

Forever

Comment by Honeybear Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:12 pm
How much money is Dick Uihlein going to let Proft waste with little to no results?

Comment by Indochine Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:15 pm
Any mail piece from the Democratic Party saying my State Representative is going to prevent cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Those are classics.

Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:16 pm
Without a doubt, the 2008 Madigan-funded coat hanger ad. McGuire lost that race to Senger by about 500 votes.

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/09/il-democrats-ta.html

Comment by Tim Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:19 pm
No funny ones. Just one that made me angry…. Got an Adam Kinzinger mailer…. The problem… I live in Lahood’s district. Man I wish Adam Kinzinger was my Congressman…. Grrr…..

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:20 pm
Dan Hynes sent me an email for a fundraiser at a topless bar …. errr, tapas bar ….. as the e-mail that went out about an hour later pointed out

Comment by The Way I See It Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:25 pm
Two that jump out to me are an O’Malley “Pubic Corruption” piece for its glaring error and a PIC of Kathy Parker w/the banner “Kathy Parker is mad.” That one was just funny.

Comment by Downstate GOP Faithless Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:26 pm
My wife is a Teamster and some of the mailers she gets on behalf of James P. Hoffa are WAY better than anything done here during the election cycle.

Comment by Team Sleep Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:31 pm
Not campaign mail, but when I was invited to Gov. Rauner’s little shin dig this spring, it was with the promises of “sandwhiches.”

Comment by AlfondoGonz Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:34 pm
The Madigan in workout tights mailer.

Comment by Saluki Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:38 pm
Jason Plummer for l.g. direct mail, couple pieces.

They were memorable because they were the only direct mail I’ve ever received from a GOP candidate for any race, although I’ve voted in a number of GOP primaries over the years.

No knock on the door from GOP walkers, either, in nearly 30 years at the same address.

Comment by wordslinger Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:39 pm
So is Proft outsourcing his print work to Bangalore now? Good for the margin on what he pays his consulting firm, I imagine.

Comment by wordslinger Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:41 pm
Snark Alert in advance….

How do you know it was a mistake??

Repeat. Snark.

Comment by A guy Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:45 pm
Team Sleep- The Hoffa mail is amazing.

The recent one I got was a Proft piece with an image of a Dem piece imposed on it…very meta.

Comment by Come on man! Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:45 pm
Labor Campaign Mail always seems to be really smart since the universe it’s going to knows a phony message or messaging.

Other mail I’ve enjoyed is the spectrum level of coziness Dems had with Edgar, or how Edgar polled and Edgar in mail for all sides…

Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:51 pm
Fritchey. Hot dog.

Comment by LizPhairTax Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:52 pm
Come On - even Zuckerman’s stuff has been pretty good. Willy - you are correct. Their microtargeting is much more nuanced and straightforward.

Comment by Team Sleep Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:53 pm
Somewhere I still have the shell casing that John Cullerton mailed out in 1994 when he was running against Rostenkowski.

Pretty much every other piece of political mail I’ve ever gotten has been tossed in the recycling bin without reading. Hard to remember stuff you never looked at in the first place.

Comment by 47th Ward Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 3:57 pm
- Team Sleep -

And their mail programs seem to have a real scheduled messaging up to the time of voting to peak. There’s a building on the last piece sent, then building on to the next. Cool stuff.

Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 4:03 pm
Loved the “Fritchey - Hot Dog” piece. Really fun, but “wordy”. The picture was priceless too.

Probably the most “memorable” recently is the “CareerFellas”. Still remember it, and the premise and narrative worked.

Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 4:06 pm
I am sure I am the exception. Received three mailers today. Twelve since Monday. Couldn’t tell you what any were about.

Comment by blue dog dem Wednesday, Oct 19, 16 @ 10:38 pm
“Any mail piece from the Democratic Party saying my State Representative is going to prevent cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Those are classics.”

This… We got one of those from someone organization that I think was supporting Conroy last election. I voted against her just for assuming that I was dumb enough to think the State Leg could do anything about a federal program.

Comment by Benniefly2 Thursday, Oct 20, 16 @ 8:00 am
Pete Roskam’s 2008 “Obama ‘n’ Me” mailers were a hoot.

– MrJM

Comment by @MisterJayEm Thursday, Oct 20, 16 @ 8:20 am