Obligatory 5th District entry of the day

Posted at 11:37 AM on March 29, 2006 by Bob Collins (2 Comments)

Ember Reichgott Junge made her candidacy for the 5th District official today with a news conference in St. Paul.

She says she will not abide by the party endorsement and she will continue to run her radio show. She says she pays for the air time and will list it as a campaign expenditure.

Hmmmm. She -- or her radio station -- might want to have a talk with the FCC because that turns her radio show into a political commercial and requires -- from my station-owning days as I recall -- the lowest available ad rate. I don't know anything about her radio show but the station would now be obliged to sell a similar block of time to everyone else in the race should they request it. I don't know if the station -- wherever it is -- would be interested in doing that, but there you go.

Audio later and it'll be posted on her page in the Campaign 2006 section.

That reminds me. I'm getting occasional cryptic phone messages from people who wonder why they don't have a page yet in the Campaign 2006 section.

The reason is:

(1) I don't know who you are.
(2) I don't know you're running for office.

If you're running, send me a statement of your candidacy (for the snapshot section), a mug of yourself, as much personal information as you'd like to share (date of birth, where born, where do you reside, married? To whom? Kids? How many? What religion (I'm not actually sure why this is relevant but some candidates think it is so I include it), political experience (if any), education (don't bother including high school unless you didn't graduate or get a GED, Web site (if you have one, of course)

And once I set it up, if you could stay in the race for longer than 4 days, my life will have a little more meaning to it.

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Comments (2)

Wherever there's a camera or microphone, Ember will find a way to position herself front and center. Will someone please clue this woman in that the voters are hardly thirsting for her candidacy for this--or any other--public office?

Posted by Karl | March 29, 2006 12:33 PM

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Interesting she would "officially" declare herself four days AFTER appearing at the 45th Senate DFL District Convention (her old home turf) and winning 2 delegates to the state convention.

And Bob, you're a radio and news guy. You seriously don't know where her station is?

(Bob notes: I know it's one of the stations that's in the business of selling blocks of time to people to put on radio shows...but I can't recall which one it is or what the name is. It's like the other day.... I saw an informercial for the broccoli exterminator, but I can't remember what channel it was on. Go figure)

Posted by Charlie | March 29, 2006 10:09 PM

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