Comments on: Diana Oropallo’s Campaign Consultants Derailed Chances for City Commission Seat

By: Hope

Hope — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 03:40:46 +0000

If the Republicans and moderates would vote at 100% all the local PR hacks would be out of business overnight. The mere thought of this should send conservatives to the polls in droves. The local PR hacks candidates don’t win because of their expertise, they win because Republicans and moderates don’t bother to vote.

Vote, vote, vote!

By: Joey Pseudonymnous

Joey Pseudonymnous — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 01:57:05 +0000

In reply to Tallahassee Reports. Not sure what their strategy was in having DePuy and Thaell inform the public (who hitherto-fore didn't give a s#!t) that they were possible ethics violators, but it was a pretty bad strategy considering the outcome of those races.

By: Tallahassee Reports

Tallahassee Reports — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:08:38 +0000

In reply to Joey Pseudonymnous.

JP-a look at their website would indicate they do “strategy.” From their website:

“The three principals at VancoreJones Communications have over 60 years combined experience in legislative and political communications in Florida. We have worked extensively in virtually every county in the state with key and notable successes in both primary and general elections. ”

http://www.vancorejones.com/

By: Joey Pseudonymnous

Joey Pseudonymnous — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:25:43 +0000

Oh, and Diana Oropallo did an outstanding job of derailing her own campaign, regardless of whatever Vancore Jones might have done. And Steve Stewart’s loss may be more attributable to, well, Steve Stewart than to any imagined suppressing of Republican votes. His message of More Cops More Cops More Cops may just not have resonated with the people of Tallahassee who regularly see TPD behaving abusively towards citizens.

By: Joey Pseudonymnous

Joey Pseudonymnous — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:47:59 +0000

Look, I like to rag on Vancore-Jones as much as the next guy, but Come On! Your accusation that V-J would in any way shape or form intentionally run one campaign differently from another is farcical on its face. V-J runs identical cookie-cutter campaigns for whomever their client may be, and if they ran Oropollo’s campaign in any way differently than Millers, then that represents a complete breakdown of their business model rather than anything that would resemble something like “strategy”. And since V-J was the consultant for both Ed DePuy, who went on TV to let all the voters know he was involved in ethics violations, thus costing him the election to a man whose name is difficult to pronounce and whose accent is so thick that you can’t understand a word he says, and Cliff Thaell, who went on TV to let all the voters know he was involved in ethics violations, thus costing him the election to a man who had never previously voted in his life and was known primarily as somebody who was good at throwing and catching a football, I’m going to go ahead and assume “strategy” is just not what Vancore-Jones is known for.

By: Ken Allewelt

Ken Allewelt — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:23:00 +0000

Great journalism… great story… great question.