I find it weird that Kevin would claim to not know Marks' political leanings. Kevin says he's done great work and that's why we hired him but look at his portfolio, the evidence one would rely on to judge someone's professional credibility. http://www.threegroup.net/portfolio
Aside from "Rebuild the Party RNC" every other website they feature as having designed is a Republican candidate including Lou Baretta the Mayor of Hazeltown known for his outrageous position on Immigration. And I cannot imagine, if Aaron Marks is even remotely competent business person, him not sharing his vision for using his portal to help the conservative movement.
So it's not that I have a problem with bipartisanship. I certainly have voted for a republican or two in my day, and "some of my best friends are Republicans" but to assert that he had no idea that he was hiring someone who has created a business to move forward the conservative agenda, and to assert that he had no idea he was hiring someone with those particular politics strikes me as sloppy or disingenuous at best. Do we really want a mayor that doesn't do at least the bare minimum of due diligence before hiring people? Or, alternatively, do we really want a mayor who does whatever he wants and then lies about it to cover his tracks and appease the voters?
The 1500 signatures were thrown out to "expedite" the process. In other words, after going through something like 1700 signatures one by one, when the Harris campaign had plenty to stay on the ballot, the attorney said (I can't quote exactly without the transcript, but this is how she related it to me) "Lets just agree to stop here, because worst case scenario, if ALL the rest were bad, Harris would still have enough signatures to remain on the ballot. We will agree to toss the rest to expedite the matter." In hind site, since the other campaign is implying that those signatures were bad, and you are assuming they were bad, that was not a smart POLITICAL move. However it didn't seem prudent to waste more donors money, more taxpayers money, and more time, just for politics.
As for the number of suburbanites, a lot of people WANTED to sign it, and some volunteers were less than savvy about not letting anyone sign. Andy Gastmeyer called it unprofessional. Ok, isn't that what Grass Roots is?? Unprofessional?
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Aside from "Rebuild the Party RNC" every other website they feature as having designed is a Republican candidate including Lou Baretta the Mayor of Hazeltown known for his outrageous position on Immigration. And I cannot imagine, if Aaron Marks is even remotely competent business person, him not sharing his vision for using his portal to help the conservative movement.
So it's not that I have a problem with bipartisanship. I certainly have voted for a republican or two in my day, and "some of my best friends are Republicans" but to assert that he had no idea that he was hiring someone who has created a business to move forward the conservative agenda, and to assert that he had no idea he was hiring someone with those particular politics strikes me as sloppy or disingenuous at best. Do we really want a mayor that doesn't do at least the bare minimum of due diligence before hiring people? Or, alternatively, do we really want a mayor who does whatever he wants and then lies about it to cover his tracks and appease the voters?
As for the number of suburbanites, a lot of people WANTED to sign it, and some volunteers were less than savvy about not letting anyone sign. Andy Gastmeyer called it unprofessional. Ok, isn't that what Grass Roots is?? Unprofessional?