{"id":18987,"date":"2017-01-04T20:41:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18987"},"modified":"2017-01-04T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:41:14","slug":"city-campaign-slogans-could-get-snappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18987","title":{"rendered":"City campaign slogans could get snappy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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James Schenk has entered a growing field of candidates lining for the Amarillo City Council election this coming spring.<\/p>\n

When I heard about it, my thoughts turned immediately to two things: Schenk’s recent rise to a sort of municipal celebrity status and the campaign slogans that could emanate from what propelled him into the spotlight.<\/p>\n

Schenk might be considered a City Hall gadfly. He attends City Council meetings regularly and he’s been a critic of city policies in recent years. I do not know<\/em> this man, although we are very casually acquainted through social media.<\/p>\n

In November, Schenk stood before the council and criticized the city for its failed bond issue election, prompting the interim city manager, Terry Childers, to mutter “stupid son of a b****” under his breath.<\/p>\n

Oops, Mr. Interim Manager. The microphone picked up what he said. Childers quit the next day, cleared out his office and was gone.<\/p>\n

Thus, Schenk became a bit of a celebrity.<\/p>\n

He wants possibly to parlay that status into an elected office. He filed the paperwork this week at City Hall declaring his intention to run for the council. I suppose he’ll choose which seat he wants to seek at the appropriate time.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to the sloganeering we might get. Think of it:<\/p>\n

“Elect James Schenk, not your ordinary ‘stupid son of a b****.'” Or try this: “Schenk: He might be an SOB, but he could be your<\/em> SOB.”<\/p>\n

I’m sure there could be an ad exec or two out there who can come up with more snappy patter to toss at voters.<\/p>\n

Whatever the case, a loose-lipped interim city manager managed to create a local\u00a0celebrity — who\u00a0is about\u00a0to become a politician.<\/p>\n

Oh, this election is going to be fun.<\/p>\n\n

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James Schenk has entered a growing field of candidates lining for the Amarillo City Council election this coming spring. When I heard about it, my thoughts turned immediately to two things: Schenk’s recent rise to a sort of municipal celebrity status and the campaign slogans that could emanate from what propelled him into the spotlight. … Continue reading City campaign slogans could get snappy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-political-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18989,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987\/revisions\/18989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}