State Fair tells Bachmann campaign to stop using Fair logo

[mike r]

http://www.minnpost.com/politicalagenda/2010/08/31/21042/state_fair_tells_bachmann_campaign_to_stop_using_fair_logo

State Fair tells Bachmann campaign to stop using Fair logo
By Joe Kimball | Published Tue, Aug 31 2010 1:01 pm

State Fair officials are asking the Michele Bachmann for Congress campaign to stop using its logo in a television ad that began running Monday.

Says Fair spokeswoman Brienna Schuette in an e-mail: "The Minnesota State Fair logo is trademarked. Michelle Bachmann’s campaign did not ask for permission to use the logo. Michelle Bachmann’s office is being contacted to end the unauthorized usage of the Minnesota State Fair logo. The State Fair does not endorse any candidate running for political office."

The ad criticizes challenger Tarryl Clark for votes on taxes and flashes the fair logo when the spokesmodel says: "I know, I know, it's State Fair time and you don't want to hear about politics." The logo appears again when he says: "While you're at the Fair, just ask her: '"What's up with voting to tax my beer?'"

[CatholicEdHead]

1. I saw that cheesey ad

Of course Bachmann is choosing to be everywhere but the Fair during campaign time. Every other politician is there. She refuses to rub elbows with the normal person.

[MineralMan]

2. Are the rich donors at the fair? If they were, you'd find Bachmann

there, too. But, since it's just the hoi polloi, she's nowhere to be seen. She could lose this one. She really, really could.

[CatholicEdHead]

3. Nope, usually not

While the MN State Fair gets quite a few people from suburbia around the Twin Cities, 99 out of a 100 or more are regular middle to lower class folks. Every other politician makes time to go out there and talk to people a few times during the 12 day run, but not Michele.

[MineralMan]

4. That's how it seems to me, too.

I'll be there tomorrow, eating crap on a stick and visiting the Democrats' booths. I don't know if I'll actually get to talk to anyone, but I hope so.

I'm going for the camel on a stick, a scotch egg, and part of a tray of cheese curds. We shall see how that stays down.