[MainstreetTowns] Political Question

[Main Street Enid - Kelly Tompkins]

As much as I avoid political everything, I have recently had discussions
with our head County Commissioner, City Attorney and others regarding
political booths at our events, free political speech, etc. 

My opinion: If they were a team and participated just like every other
team, leave them in! The ones upset will get over it. Unless it was on
property that doesn't allow political campaigning - and even then, it
sounds like they weren't campaigning so I'd leave them in the photos. 

I'm definitely not an attorney. 

:)
Kelly - Enid

On 07/05/2018 2:33 pm, Chelsea McConnell wrote:

> 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. 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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.  
> 
> Have any of you experienced something similar?  
> 
> CHELSEA MCCONNELL 
> 
> EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, PONCA CITY MAIN STREET 
> 
> 516 E. GRAND AVENUE 
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