California Primary Political Mail Archive is Up at GregDewar.com!

The first step of our Disinfo Rehab project is up and online! Thanks to good friends on the Peninsula and in San Francisco, as well as some trusty campaign volunteers, I’ve posted the first of what will be many entries into a Political Direct Mail Web Archive that you, the citizen, can review in advance of California’s Primary Election on June 6th. (Temporarily, PDF files submitted to the arcive are featured here while we get Flickr to cooperate!)
Currently the archive features entries from State Senate Candidate Mike Nevin , who has some of the most novel mail pieces, evoking an earlier era in campaign themes, as well as a piece I picked up at a street fair last weekend from the campaign of Fiona Ma, who is running in Assembly District 12.
More from our gubernatorial candidates, our friends in high and low places, and those running for other offices will be featured as the days go by. You may also make submissions by email by sending me an email with your reasonably sized JPEGs or PDFs of stuff you find.
Oddly enough, because I recently re-registered only a few months ago into the new house I moved into, I’m not getting the volume of doubleplusungoodmail I usually get. So, if you’re looking at that steaming pile of dead trees, and thinking of junking it, think again!
I’m offering a drink bounty to voters for new and unusual pieces of mail, in particular those sent out by special interests influencing the outcome of many of the Legislative elections in California, where so many people are running for ever so many offices.
Enjoy the archive and keep coming back as more images (and more commentary) are added to the new disinfobabble and artistic licenses issued by today’s politickers. Consultants are also welcome to submit pieces they are proud of, as well.
UPDATE: Big updates coming this weekend. Meanwhile, check this article out discussing the increasingly flat out false mail going out to the public.
UPDATE 2 – May 28th: More pieces have been added from the Reilly/Ma race and the Yee/Nevin/Papan race….anyone wishing to submit pieces they’ve received should email me with their entries…thanks!
Oh and some advice for the volunteers eager to tell us about their candidates – the moment you put a handout or a piece of unauthorized crap in a mailbox, not only do you earn bad karma, but you are also committing a federal crime. Just last night I found two piecesfor a candidate for DCCC shoved in my mailbox at home in the Inner Sunset. Not smart. Kids, learn the rules and play it safe, ok?

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