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On the way to school this morning he asked me if the color of Rex Bohn’s signs was deliberately colored like the Giants’ logo to suggest that the Giants would vote for him.
I responded that the coloring is probably intentional, but that it’s more to associate the campaign with the home team feeling, not to suggest an endorsement from the Giants.
Then he asked me what a Supervisor does. I’m not sure he was satisfied with my explanation.
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May 4, 2012 at 10:08 am
eddenson
I’m not sure anyone would be satisfied with the fullest explanation of what a Supervisor does. They have the trappings of power, but in most cases, not the authority to use it. On the other hand, where they do have the ability to affect the world, they often do more harm than good. Probably what is needed is Supervisor training classes, just as, say, Judges get when they first take the bench. Roger Rodoni told me that he got no preparation for the job nor handoff from his predecessor, Roy Heider. He walked into an empty office and sat down in the chair and began to figure out what to do.
May 4, 2012 at 10:20 am
Eric Kirk
I think they do go to trainings now. After every election there’s a statewide seminar for newly elected Supervisors or something. I vaguely remember that both Clif and Mark attended something.
May 4, 2012 at 11:28 am
ICU812
“Or something”? Is that your way of saying you don’t know? They should have a book for “dummies” on this topic. Or better yet, how about the:
The County Boards of Supervisors Association of California?
I thought that’s why the County Supervisors have paid County staff and paid County Council staff, to serve at the pleasure of the Supervisors? Why would a newly elected Supervisor need to take a class. If he or she wants to serve his or her district, they need to learn how to read, after that it’s a piece of cake. It’s the election process that kicks anyones ass. Once your in, your in like Flynn or Flint, which ever you prefer. You have four long years of OJT. You can never stop learning!
My only advice, learn from others mistakes not your own and no matter what you think you can say to get re=elected, the public has a great four year memory cycle, they will never let you forget anything.
May 4, 2012 at 11:29 am
Anonymous
Thanks for the great story about your son.
May 4, 2012 at 11:53 am
Eric Kirk
Well gosh ICU812! If it’s so easy, why didn’t we elect you?!
May 4, 2012 at 12:38 pm
ICU812
Who said it was easy, you? I sure didn’t. If it was easy, everybody would be doing it. Most people are honest, but once they have seen what’s behind the curtain, they are corrupted, just as children are when they learn from example. Elections are nothing but a game of chance, you never know what you are getting until its too late. Everyone has a price, everyone…….
May 4, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Eric Kirk
Well, that’s cheerful for this nice Friday afternoon.
May 4, 2012 at 1:34 pm
Anon
Great story . Your an excellent story teller ! Sounds like you got a great kid . Characteristics of a great Dad, no doubt .
May 4, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Eric Kirk
Thanks Anon!
May 4, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Dave Kirby
My first taste of politics occurred when my mom kept me home from school to watch general MacArthur’s return from Korea after being fired for proposing we nuke China. My teacher that year was not impressed with Doug and let me know that wasn’t a valid reason to be home. I was too young to know if 5 nukes north of the Yalu would have helped. From what i’ve seen the Bohnballs are on a lot of he same Hooked on Bass places. Hooked on Bohnballs…has a ring to it. I think Limbaugh was doing Bohnballs.
May 4, 2012 at 7:50 pm
humboldturtle
Dad, here’s a question:
http://humboldturtle.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/go-giants-bohn-not-so-much/
May 5, 2012 at 8:27 am
Thorstein Veblen
I dunno Eric, I think your boy is onto something. I’d like to hear his thoughts on the Karen Brooks and Estelle Fennel signs.
May 5, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Eric Kirk
The standard is whether the logo is “confusinly similar.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusing_similarity
It requires a full context analysis, not merely visual. Parodies of McDonalds, WalMart, and other companies are used in political satire and commentary all the time. The issue is whether you are causing confusion, as in suggesting that the shoes you are selling are Nikes by using a logo with a similar appearance and spelling it Nikies or something which could generate confusion.
I don’t think that’s present here.
May 5, 2012 at 4:40 pm
Anonymous
estelles little campaign signs look (appropriately) like for sale signs.
May 8, 2012 at 11:23 am
anonymous #147
If I recall correctly, Rex Bohn owns the field in Eureka where the Little League teams play. Hence the baseballs.
May 8, 2012 at 12:43 pm
Eric Kirk
I believe he runs a non-profit which owns it, and he is pretty much the reason they exist. The baseball imagery isn’t the mystery for my son who met him at the fieds during soccer season. It was the choice of coloring which is very much like the Giants’.