For those of us who spend any time at all on social media, or online news sites (including The Straight and The Tyee), one can hardly avoid the plethora of online ads touting Vision Vancouver — focusing mainly on the chiseled features of Mayor Gregor Robertson, and the campaign’s initial Go Forward branding — supplemented by sponsored ads (such as the one above for current Park Board Commissioner / acclaimed Vision Vancouver Council candidate, lawyer Niki ‘she doesn’t suffer fools gladly‘ Sharma).
Even for those of us whose lives revolve around a consuming interest in municipal political affairs, the deluge of Vision Vancouver ads wherever you turn online is, well, a bit much, too many ads, too soon, long before the campaign for civic elected office is set to get underway in earnest this fall.
For some of those among us, the every other Facebook posting-sponsored Vision Vancouver ads have about them an unpleasant sense of electoral desperation, as per putative NPA candidate / former Park Board chair Ian Robertson’s comments to The Straight’s Carlito Pablo today, “Vision Vancouver are nervous … are scared, and quite frankly, they have every reason to be nervous and scared about this upcoming election.”
Honest, Mike and Kevin, those ads are too much, too soon. It’s summer time, after all, beach time, family time, and generally considered to be the silly season in politics. Do you really want to position Vision Vancouver as silly this early in the 2014 municipal election campaign? Nope, thought not.
Helpful hint: For those of you looking to avoid those mass hypnosis Vision Vancouver ads — particularly on Facebook — correspondent / Kits Beach environmental activist Elvira Lount posted the following advice today …
Sick of seeing Gregor’s face & the Vision Team ad in your newstream? Well — it’s easy to get rid of them! Click the little down arrow on the top right of the ad and click on “hide all ads from Gregor Robertson and the Vision Team”. Presto. No more Gregor ads. Big relief. Couldn’t stand 5½ more months of those. Hurray!”
Well, there you go — problem solved. Thanks Elvira!
Word has filtered through to VanRamblings that yet another lawsuit directed at Vision Vancouver is in the works — this latest proposed legal action concerning the issue of campaign spending (can you just imagine how much those Tyee / Straight / Facebook ads cost, in heavy rotation — none of which fund expenditure requires disclosure by Vision Vancouver).
