Okay, so I thought all the campaign commercials were annoying in their magnitude, but in Austin, Texas, they've taken it to a whole new level. Asian food restaurants are giving out fortune cookies with campaign messages inside. The cookies are promoting a bond proposal which would fund cultural facilities.
It starts as early as August for the november elections. The pins, the billboards, the events for supporters. The signs in people's windows and yards. And those annoying adds with bad actors. Vote this vote that. I can hear one behind me right now. I can't count how many people in doctors jackets I've seen promoting or trashing propositions. I honestly didn't expect it to get any worse. The politicians have already put their message in in our homes. Now they've gotten it into our meals. I wonder if fortune cookies are the next big advertising tool. It would be a clever idea for a high school election for home coming queen... maybe; but using cookies to get the vote for $31.5 million is absurd. Politicians need to take the campaigning down a notch.
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I live in Austin-which restaurant is it? and which candidate?
It's not for a candidate, it's for a proposition. The cookie reads: "Vote Nov. 7 for Prop 4/Invest in Austin's Creative Economy."
It's being distributed at about 200 restaurants, though i'm not sure which ones specificly.