[MainstreetTowns] Political Question

[Ed Sharrer]

"We're just three funerals away from some real progress around here." -
Karen Dye

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.

ps - Political candidates are human beings with actual lives, too.

Ed

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 2:33 PM, Chelsea McConnell <
clmcconnell at poncacitymainstreet.com> 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.
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>
>
> Have any of you experienced something similar?
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> *Chelsea McConnell*
>
> *Executive Director, Ponca City Main Street*
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> *516 E. Grand Avenue*
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> *Ponca City, OK 74601(580) 763-8082*
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Ed Sharrer
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