In a message dated 7/8/2004 11:20:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Eric Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>--- Mike Fratto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In the article in today's Pioneer Press Ron Maddox >> is quoted as >> saying his first rule for the Taste of Minnesota was >> no politics. >> however, I know that a number of times I have seen >> politicians with >> their handlers walking through the crowd passing out >> literature. >--------------------------------------- > >Maddox is correct about the Taste. I have tried to get >booth space on behalf of a political organization a >couple of years ago and he directly (and quite >clearly) said no politics. That was the end of that. > I have on more than one occasion walked candidates through the Taste. Clearly it is their event and they can evict whoever they want from their event. I have never had any problem when the candidate is simply shaking hands, saying how do you do and answering people's questions. As a "handler" I stood to the side and offered lit if the person engaged the candidate. I would guess that the Farmer's Market has responded the same way to candidates walking through their "event." If you are walking through saying how do you do and only engaging those people who want to be engaged it probably would be more of an issue to evict you than to let you work the crowd. But, if you camp out on the space that they are renting from the city and direct comments at all passers by, I'd guess they'd boot you. I know that when I have worked the Farmers' Market crowd (without a candidate) we always did it from across the street not on the sidewalk attached to the market. Chuck (long time handler) Repke
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