The research is just starting. But Nutter ran the second-richest campaign
after Knox. He probably ran the campaign that was richest with other
people's money. His campaign reports show deep and broad support among the
city's monied elite. He wasn't a Wharton grad and an investment banker for
nothing. Wealth did win this election, make no mistake. (Nopt that wealth is
bad in itself.)
He had plenty of volunteers on the street Tuesday. He also had plenty of
paid day-workers on the street. Nicely paid, I might add.
Good for him! The footsoldier who picks up street money on Election Day
tends not to be a Wharton grad trying to cover last night's tab at the White
Dog. The footsoldier is likely to be a poor person who'll use the money to
meet basic needs. I hope Nutter and Knox and Brady and Fattah and Evans
spent as much money as possible to hire street workers, and as little as
possible to fatten the wallets of TV-station owners.
Susan Jacobson, you're a journalism scholar. When a vast flood of election
money pours into a video media market, how much of it goes to hiring extra
spot workers, how much to extra video technical costs, and how much to
enrich the already rich? I know in print, if I make twice as much ad
revenue, I have to pay for twice as many pages. So the printers at least get
some overtime.
But does that apply to broadcast or cable? I can't run twice as many
commercial spots, can I? Then my programs would disappear. So I would have
to just charge twice as much for the same amount of work, wouldn't I? Dag,
that must be a disappointment to any ethics-driven news outlet. I bet they
hate to see election time roll around.
-- Tony West
From: "David Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
They probably were Knox people. Knox paid his workers $100/day. Nutter
didn't have that kind of money. There were workers out there getting $20
for the day for some of the candidates. I think Nutter probably had the
highest proportion of volunteers. I don't know if he paid any election
day workers.
On the other hand, many of the people paid to work for other candidates
were probably Nutter supporters. Or they might not have had any clue as
to who they were working for, so they handed out what they were given to
hand out, and later on, got Nutter shirts to wear? I don't know. It
sounds all very peculiar.
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