What if you had $1 billion to spend on a Presidential campaign?
I was reading reports that Michael Bloomberg was rumored to announce his candidacy for President. A friend mentioned that he had reportedly said he would spend up to $1 billion to get elected (no sources were cited).
I was thinking: what would you do if you were going to spend $1 bn on a Presidential campaign?
Rather than spend it on vapid attack ads, I might spend it revitalizing a community, or doing something to make a concrete difference in the lives of many people, and then saying, “That’s the kind of thing I want to see happen as President.”
Would it work? I don’t know. But I’d rather see the money directly creating good than going to yet another round of media buys so we can all be inundated with the meaningless drivel that is campaign advertising.
So is this a declaration of your candidacy? Stever for President! Stever for President!
You’ve got my vote.
January 14th, 2008 at 11:37 pmI fear I’d last about ten minutes, then they’d try to dig up some dirt. What if they discovered that the Betty Crocker Cake Mix I made in my sister’s Easy-Bake oven thirty years ago was actually hormone-enhanced? In one quick moment, my campaign would be over. The environmentalists would skewer me for using hormone-enhanced cake, and Betty Crocker would skewer me for being skewered by the environmentalists. But at least I’d get some great lobbyist-funded dinners out of it
January 15th, 2008 at 4:41 pm