{"id":2356,"date":"2009-05-11T07:22:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T11:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2009-05-07T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T14:41:57","slug":"campaigning-ur-doin-itpretty-well-akshully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2356","title":{"rendered":"Campaigning: Ur Doin It&#8230;Pretty Well, Akshully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tevis.gif\" alt=\"Tevis Cartoon\" title=\"Tevis Cartoon\" width=\"470\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tevis.gif 470w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tevis-150x67.gif 150w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/tevis-300x134.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We mentioned Sean Tevis, the &#8220;Candidate from the Internet&#8221; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=808\">previously<\/A>.  He lost the election (although it was close, which is still quite a feat considering that he was a complete unknown running against a career politician).<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s begun campaigning for another run in 2010, and has come up with an interesting way to let donors get involved.  He&#8217;s meeting with as many senators as possible, asking them to help accomplish the goals he wanted to achieve, and he gives each senator he meets a commemorative T-shirt printed with donor names.  Even better:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As you may know, Stephen Colbert was recently robbed of his chance to get a module of the international space station named after him. While I encourage Mr. Colbert to just change his name to &#8216;Tranquility&#8217; (the name NASA chose) and claim victory &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t seem likely. Mr. Colbert needs some name-recognition love from elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, if we manage to get all 50 politician&#8217;s shirts sponsored by June 1st, I will officially name my car &#8220;The Spirit of Colbert&#8221; in big letters across the sides. Unless, of course, I get a cease and desist letter from Comedy Central in which case I&#8217;ll name it &#8220;Tranquility&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like him.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/option4.seantevis.com\/index.htm\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We mentioned Sean Tevis, the &#8220;Candidate from the Internet&#8221; previously. He lost the election (although it was close, which is still quite a feat considering that he was a complete unknown running against a career politician). He&#8217;s begun campaigning for another run in 2010, and has come up with an interesting way to let donors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}