LFCCMCCUJ Volume 3

If you have stumbled upon this blog in the hopes of finding clarity and common sense... again sorry... for the rest we are using skills handout #1 and are bored... The set-up for this lesson is... The slogan for my candidate is...

When covering a campaign in comedy using joke it is useful to create slogans based on your comic cartooning of each of the candidates. Let's face it anyone can say they are the best and promise their website contains more specific idea's than Moses brought down from the Mount... but how does a comic separate the wheat from the chaff? And more important how do you turn wheat into chaff?

As the front-runner Ric4Mayor gets the 1st shot... his comic slogan could be a take off on his moniker "Dr. No"... something like "If you don't believe I say no ask my wife" or it could be based on his record "I said no to any idea good or bad" or you could do an opposite... "I meant to say yes" or "yes I'll say anything to get elected". The slogan should follow on my cartoon image as someone who knows it's his to lose

Next up is Barb4Mayor This should be easy... a smart articulate woman who has spent years learning how Calgary works from the grass roots up and dedicated thousands of hours learning what we do, volunteering for causes we support, editing and delivering the days news... I cartooned her earlier as a reporter by day... crime-fighter by night caricature... but if she really was a crime-fighter... she would have to keep her identity quiet... perplexing all... I will go with the fear angle because there is a real fear among city officials that she will be elected and want to know what happened... "Be on the right side of Barb" "Barb... wire to wire" possibly... "Barb bad news for incompetence" or "Barb... please don't leave me alone to explain where the money went to her again" sorry that was more of a wiretap confession...

Naheed4Mayor is by far and away the candidate with the most passionate and social media savvy supporters. He's a professor at a local university... I call it a local university because it hasn't officially been named the Ralph Klein University... and is running his campaign on his intelligence... experience... ideas... and looks a lot like one of the characters on The Big Bang Theory... after he's had a few drinks... is Calgary ready for Sheldon as Mayor? I would joke it with "I can split the atom cutting a budget is child's play"..."I can't be bought I have no friends"... "My avatar is hotter than yours"..."Only candidate currently ranked in Halo Top 100 scores"

I cartooned Bob4Mayor as a sort of Friar Tuck with a dented Halo... because he is always on the right side of an issue even if it is the wrong issue... He must look around and go really... I have to compete with this? His slogan may be more jaded "Really you even have to think about it?"... "It's tough being right all the time... right dear?"... "I knew Ralph when he was an idiot reporter"

Lord4Mayor is just too easy... in the comic vernacular is it shooting dicks in a barrel... so go in a different direction... I suggest scatological... "Lord this place is a dump"... "... "Lord... what a shithole of irregularity and source only spending"... "Lord... there is no way I could do worse"

If Wayne4Mayor were running 30 years ago he would have been considered an uppity whippersnapper... and probably won... but he seems a little behind the times and is trying a bit too hard so... "Elect Wayne The Friend WTF.ca"... "It's Wayne s World Hommies"... "My hommies are the homeless" "A CEO who will BRB 2U"

Craig4Mayor... Joe4Mayor... Barry4Mayor are not easily separated from each other... and might consider a joint slogan... or have one and try to write a slogan... "You voted for us before why change now?"... "Proven Mediocrity"... one gets an extra slogan... "Compiling to the letter of campaign finance guidelines"

Every campaign needs an Oscar4Mayor if for no other reason than moving the debates along comically... my slogan would be "The voices of reason"... "Go Fech"... "Oscar nominated... Oscar performance"

Devine4Mayor "Give the Devine a chance" ... Hunter4Mayor "The Survivorman" ... Johnston4Mayor "Best Johnston in the race"... Dan4Mayor "As seen on Corner Gas"... Amanda4Mayor "Amanda balance the books"...

Ta da!