<div dir="ltr"><div>Heard it before, but I love the quote you lead with - lol.<br><br></div>John<br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 3:39 PM Ed Sharrer <<a href="mailto:historickwms@gmail.com">historickwms@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">"We're just three funerals away from some real progress around here." - Karen Dye<br><br>They were part of a team competing in the event. You have 15 other photos of non-candidates. Anyone with a lick of sense knows that isn't taking a political stance. Unless the photos were captioned with their name and what office they're running for, leave the photos in. If someone recognizes them just from a photo, fine. You haven't broken any laws nor crossed any ethical boundaries.<div><br></div><div>ps - Political candidates are human beings with actual lives, too. </div><div><br></div><div>Ed</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 2:33 PM, Chelsea McConnell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clmcconnell@poncacitymainstreet.com" target="_blank">clmcconnell@poncacitymainstreet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3672816203777934218m_4974339903595765563WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">I recently had someone reach out to me about photos from our Battle of the Burger event that I posted on Facebook on our PCMS page.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">We had 17ish teams. A volunteer took pictures at the event, including shots of all the teams. I put all of these on Facebook. Two of the teams are candidates running for office. Posting their photos was not a political stance. They were posted with all the other event pics. So, now I’ve had someone reach out and say I need to delete the photos of the candidates because it looks as if we might be taking a political stance. The pictures were posted in an album. In no way were the ones of the candidates made to stand out.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Does anyone know if there are any laws regarding something like this? I hesitate to take them down, because as someone who had a team in our event, their participation helped make our event successful. Additionally, one of the candidates running for office also owns a local radio station and does a ton of in-kind advertising for us. I certainly don’t want to hurt our relationship. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">Have any of you experienced something similar? <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#002060">Chelsea McConnell</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#002060">Executive Director, Ponca City Main Street</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#002060">516 E. Grand Avenue</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#002060">Ponca City, OK 74601<br>(580) 763-8082</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0f243e"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#0f243e">“Our mission is to serve Ponca City and its citizens by promoting quality of life through efforts focused toward economic growth, historical preservation, cultural development and revitalization of the downtown and surrounding area.”</span></i><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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