Tea Party Congressman's card to Obama filled with misspellings

[kpete]

Last edited Sat Jul 27, 2013, 12:43 PM - Edit history (2)

Tea Party Congressman's card to Obama filled with misspellings


even misspelling of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by writing 1600 Pensylvannia Avenue.
find the others:



More about this:

Sure wish Representative Fleischmann cared about education. As the story pointed out:
Fewer than half of Hamilton County students in grades 3 through 8 can read at their grade level, according to standardized test results.
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/jul/27/postcard-runs-afoul-of-spelling-standards/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/27/1226970/-Tea-Party-Congressman-s-card-to-Obama-filled-with-misspellings


UPDATE:
(not snark)

Tyler Threadgill, Fleischmann's communications director, fell on his pencil and assumed blame for the blunder.

"I literally sent out the wrong attachment," Threadgill said.

Threadgill later sent out a corrected version of the faux postcard.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/jul/27/postcard-runs-afoul-of-spelling-standards/

[niyad]

1. well, quite apart from the bad spelling, there is the bad grammar and lack of connected, cohesive

thought. one does not usually think of natural attractions as historic, and what in the HELL does that have to do with the size of businesses one can attract? seriously, chuckles, get a new communications director, or, if you actually penned this yourself, go back to school.

[CatWoman]

3. let's not forget that god awful,

hard to read font.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

2. If I recall, I think Tennessee is one of those states ...

... that takes more than they contribute. What a burden.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/11/states-federal-taxes-spending-charts-maps

I don't like Obamacare, either (single-payer fan), but if you're going to complain, quit taking my tax money while doing it.

[starroute]

4. Those job growth claims are also questionable

It's true that Chattanooga did well last year. The Volkswagen plant that was located there in 2008 added more jobs, and so did the Amazon distribution center that Obama is visiting. But on the other hand:

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/jan/01/rebound-chattanooga-leads-state-job-growth/

Despite the net addition of nearly 4,000 jobs and more than $150 million of new factories, hotels and stores in the area during 2012, local business closings still cut thousands of other jobs in the area last year.

The closing of Food Lion, Sears, Gap and Kmart stores and the shutdown of the former Olan Mills production center, Taft Youth Center and Georgia Pacific box-making plant collectively eliminated more than 2,000 local jobs during 2012.

From the trough of the recession in the summer of 2009, metropolitan Chattanooga had added 15,400 jobs by November 2012. But the metro area still is more than 10,000 jobs shy of its employment peak reached in 2006.

And sequestration isn't doing them any favors.

http://timesfreepress.com/news/2013/jul/26/area-jobless-rate-rises-as-schools-out/

Despite yearly gains in private-sector jobs in both Tennessee and Georgia, the number of government jobs continued to shrink, according to reports released Thursday by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development and the Georgia Department of Labor.

Across the 19-county region of Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia, county jobless rates were up in June in all counties. Unemployment in the region varied from a low of 7.4 percent in the North Georgia bedroom communities of Catoosa County up to 12.8 percent and 12.9 percent in the rural counties of Rhea and Van Buren counties.

Three years after the official end of the recession, eight of the 19 area counties still had double-digit unemployment during June.

Job growth has suffered this year from federal budget sequestration, school budget cuts, TVA job losses and other reductions in government employment.

Over the past year, total employment in Tennessee is up by 1.2 percent and jobs have grown by 2.2 percent in Georgia, according to government figures. But government employment over the past year is down by 3.5 percent in Tennessee and 1.7 percent in Georgia.

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

[Solly Mack]

6. That explains a lot.