Jesse Cornett has qualified for public financing this afternoon. Here’s his press release, shamelessly cut and pasted. This is a candidate’s dream:
Jesse Cornett Qualifies as the Only 2010 Voter-Owned Candidate for City Council
PORTLAND — City Council candidate Jesse Cornett officially qualified today for public financing in his race to unseat City Commissioner Dan Saltzman. As the only 2010 candidate to qualify under Portland’s voter-owned elections program (and the final candidate before voters decide whether to keep the program in November), Cornett vowed to bring a new and more energetic vision to Portland in his campaign.
“Portland is a great city and it deserves energetic, proactive leadership every single day,” Cornett said. “City Hall needs to focus on our core priorities to ensure that Portland remains a great city. We need to do more than just talk about creating jobs, we need action. That’s how the city can be a partner for Portland’s schools and ensure they are as great as our children deserve. Right now, we are lagging behind. We simply can’t keep electing the same people and expect anything to be different. It’s time to move Portland forward.”
Cornett promised voters a vigorous campaign reaching every corner of the city and said he would engage Portlanders at opportunity. “Dan Saltzman is the longest-serving member of the City Council, and Portlanders deserve a serious debate about whether he deserves a fourth term.”
“This is going to be a grassroots campaign. Voter-owned elections means I’ll be talking to voters every day, not holed up in a campaign office dialing for dollars.” If elected, Cornett plans plans to be the most accessible City Commissioner in recent history.
Cornett was a co-founder of the Oregon Bus Project, BlueOregon.com, and has worked for Congressman Earl Blumenauer and Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury. Most recently, he served as the Government Relations Director at Portland State University. Voters can already read about Cornett’s campaign and ideas at jessecornett.com
Did Saltzman not qualify?
Jesus Christ… who writes this shit?
“We need to do more than just talk about creating jobs, we need action. That’s how the city can be a partner for Portland’s schools and ensure they are as great as our children deserve.”
You won’t find a better example of non sequitur in any dictionary.
I think he just plugged a few issues of my column into the Batputer, and printed what it spat out.
@Reymont: Saltzman doesn’t need public financing. He could write a check for this campaign tomorrow and still have change left over for a Happy Meal.
I’m as big a fan of public financing as you’ll find, but I can’t get over paying some hack to write drivel like this. Strunk and White are rolling over in their graves (Omit needless words! Omit needles words!).
And of course Kari Chisolm is getting a big fat chunk of public money, too, for a Web site straight outta 1997. Shit, he probably wrote the boilerplate press release, too.
I suggest taking a look at Mary Volm for those who want someone a little more experienced and articulate than Mr. Cornett.
Congrats to Jesse! He worked exceptionally hard to qualify, and now gets to meet thousands and thousands of voters. Time to talk the issues.
Jesse’s got the right experience, values, and energy to get the job done.
Steve R, you don’t even know what a non sequitur is:
a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.
you don’t even know what Jesse was asked in giving his responses. only he & the interviewer know that.
and if you think Kari’s getting rich off his work, you know nothing about what Oregon campaigns can afford. but don’t worry: your hipster creds are rock solid. keep sounding cool, man.
As a rhetorical fallacy, you got it right, TA, but you’ve missed the more common usage, i.e. “A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it” (Am. Heritage Dictionary). A writing teacher would mark down this whole piece for lack of “coherence.” You can look that up, too.
But no matter. The press release is pure boilerplate fluff and you know it. It’s a work of literary masturbation.
The only actual pieces of information are 1) that he qualified for public financing and 2) his biographical info. The rest conveys no meaning whatsoever, much less hints of policy positions.
I never said Chisolm’s getting rich, just that he’s supping at the trough. Nice work if you can get it, I suppose. Can’t wait for the mailers.
Wait a minute… I sounded “cool?” I’ve got hipster cred?!? Awesome. Can’t wait to tell my kids.