When you have to pay people to hold up a banner supporting your cause, you know something has got to be wrong with your campaign.
But that’s exactly what the “Yes on Soccer” campaign did last fall as it tried to get Johnson County voters to back a property tax for two dozen youths soccer fields in Overland Park.
The campaign spent about $2,000 to hire nine people to hold up a banner at a Chief’s game, new campaign finance reports show. No word on why the soccer supporters and their “grass roots” campaign couldn’t round up enough volunteers to hold up the banner.
Maybe that was a foreshadowing of things to come. The tax increase went down in flames, getting support from barely more than a third of the voters casting ballots.
All didn’t come out bad for soccer supporters, though. Some walked away with gifts baskets, costing the campaign about $1,000.
Posted by Brad Cooper
That's the problem with Johnson County sports fans. They want all the benefits of having a sports team/stadium, without having to actually do the dirty work of paying for it. I hope the Wizards end up in Missouri either in Parkville, Lee's Summit, Blue Springs, or even Liberty with their new stadium because it's becoming painfully obvious that Johnson County sports fans are all talk.
Posted by: Patrick Pierce | January 03, 2007 at 11:20 AM
Could it be that Jeff Row (Axiom Strategies) isn't as good as he thinks he is? Just wondering.
Posted by: Wondering | January 03, 2007 at 11:26 AM
LOL
Becky Nace is about to find that out.
Posted by: | January 03, 2007 at 03:59 PM