[MainstreetTowns] Political Question

[John Newby]

Heard it before, but I love the quote you lead with - lol.

John


On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 3:39 PM Ed Sharrer <historickwms at gmail.com> wrote:

> "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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