[MainstreetTowns] Political Question

[Chelsea McConnell]

Thanks for the feedback, friends!  Lots of good advice! J 

 

Chelsea

 

From: Ed Sharrer [mailto:historickwms at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2018 3:39 PM
To: Chelsea McConnell
Cc: Main Street Towns
Subject: Re: [MainstreetTowns] Political Question

 

"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.  

 

Have any of you experienced something similar?  

 

Chelsea McConnell

Executive Director, Ponca City Main Street

516 E. Grand Avenue

Ponca City, OK 74601
(580) 763-8082

 

“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.”

 


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