Good advertising differentiates your product. There was once a kinder, gentler time when you never named competitors. Why give free exposure?
Nowadays, trashing is expected, especially in follytix.
Apparently, few think about the downside.
Such is the case with the media gurus advising Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford against his Republican opponent, a lawyer named Sigal Chattah.
Who?
At last Saturday’s Trump adoration in the Alabaster Bastion of Douglas County, Chattah chirped “When you want a new crop, you burn and scorch the old crop.” The pyromaniacal pol promised to file legal actions against Gov. Sisolak, President Biden and just about every Democrat old enough to drive.
“I’m going to empanel so many grand juries in the four years that I’m AG that (U.S. Attorney General) Merrick Garland will blush,” quoth the raven-haired Chattah. At least she’s only planning on serving one term.
And yes, Sigal’s a she.
Without Ford’s advertising, I wouldn’t have known. He’s spent megabucks informing voters of Chattah’s gender. Big mistake.
The base of the Donkeyite Party is women. Who like voting for other women.
Voters of all stripes possess only slight knowledge of lower tier candidates. Women have an edge among Democrats just as men do with Republicans. That advantage disappears with a unisex name.
Japanese autos now known as Nissans were once called Datsuns, pronounced “dot-sun.”
In 1978, a gray-haired avuncular lawyer named Ted Dotson ran for Nevada Supreme Court. His name made him toast.
“When we survey that race, people ask one thing,” my pollster said. “Is he Japanese?” Same syndrome as the unenlightened who believed Barack Hussein Obama was a foreign-born Muslim.
“Sigal Chattah” is a furriner-sounding monicker. Ford’s ads have informed voters that Sigal’s a she, thereby surrendering Ford’s advantage among female-leaning Democrats, both men and women.
Dumb follytix.
DISS HERE DISS IS FOR YOUSE, NEW YORK STYLE. Gomorrah South Sheriff Joe Lombardo introduced Czar Donaldov at Saturday’s Minden Airport paleface purgatorio. Live microphones caught Lombardo asking Trump if he should remain onstage while the GOP godhead performed.
Sacrilege! The Donald shares the limelight with no mere mortal. His wonderfulness curtly told the strutting sheriff to get outta Dodge.
Late night host Jimmie Kimmel followed up on Monday by showing a clip from last Saturday of Trump embracing one “Paul Laxalt,” who was candidate Adam Laxalt’s grandfather. Who died in 2018.
Have Aaron Ford’s writers been moonlighting for Kimmel?
MORE ABUSE FROM THE MORALLY OBTUSE. Tomorrow, the Regional Transportation Commission meets in special session to spend more than $100,000.00 of your money. Long-suffering and much abused former dispatcher Daleen Smothers will get the money which can’t begin to compensate her for years of torment imposed on her by RTC, its transit contractors and their brutal lawyers.
The longtime dispatcher unfairly got the ax several years ago basically because her supervisor just didn’t like her. RTC even flew the jerk back to Nevada from his retirement home in Maine to trash her in court. She was offered a $50k settlement to walk away but refused, choosing to continue her fight for justice.
RTC’s blackballers and their foreign-owned contractor Keolis Transit hired a hyper-expensive law firm to conduct a scorched-earth campaign of threats and intimidation. I wonder how much the taxpayers will get stuck for legal fees. Probably much, much more than Ms. Smothers’ win.
Union President Gary Watson said “While Teamsters Local 533 supports Ms. Smothers’ decision to accept the settlement, we believe she was unjustly terminated and rightfully should be returned to her former position. Ms. Smothers had an impeccable safety/discipline record in her 20-plus year career serving the public.
“Unfortunately, our transit system is in dire need of employees and they have a massive turnover rate,” he added. “As of now, RTC has blatantly ignored an arbitrator’s decision at the expense of our tax dollars. RTC should re-evaluate this matter with the intention of re-employment of Ms. Smothers. The RTC board, through the direction of the executive director, should have these difficult discussions with Keolis, and the RTC should spend the public’s resources on a more (transparent) transit system.”
Keolis is a notorious abuser of women. They fired a young African-American driver in Los Angeles for the unpardonable sin of asking a passenger to wear a mask at the pre-vaccine height of the plague. The driver had just returned from cancer chemotherapy and thus suffered from a compromised immune system.
It took the union a couple of years, but she was finally re-hired by recalcitrant Keolis. The outfit lost all three Hat Trick Strikes in Washoe County last year.
HEAVY HEART FOR HOLLY, 1947-2022. Holly Stewart White English died on August 31. The talented painter and singer leavened many lives in her time among us. Her family has suffered serious losses in recent years.
Her mother, Mary Stewart, was the first non-African-American member of the Reno-Sparks NAACP and a civil rights legend. Her sister, UNR Prof. Dr. Mary White Stewart, died in 2021.
My friend Holly left a daughter in Australia and a large extended family including her three musketeers, brothers John Aaron White, Jr., Geoffrey White and Stewart White, top-gun lawyers all.
All five White kids sang at their mom’s memorial. Now, only the musketeers remain. A celebration will be announced as time goes by.
Rest in peace, great artist. You done good.
MIKE GUERRA, 1956-2022. The longtime union activist and RTCRide transit operator died at 65 on August 31 due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. That didn’t stop him from frontline picket duty, helping win last year’s Hat Trick Strikes.
Thanks to all who have responded to help his family. Please access gofund.me/c1fed539/ or send checks or money orders payable to Mike’s mother, Olivia Baker, addressed to her attention at Teamsters Local 533, 1190 Selmi Drive No. 100, Reno 89512.
Stay safe and pray for Ukraine and 53 other currently war-torn lands.
Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno.
Andrew Quarantino Barbano is a 54-year Nevadan and editor of NevadaLabor.com. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Tribune since 1988. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us
