Politicking from the past

For those of you reading this for the 1st time... again congratulations... and for the rest you are using skills handout #1 and are bored...the lesson is about comedy and the YYC mayoral race... and I am prejudiced...

When covering a campaign comidically it is best to have a basic understanding as to how civic politics has been run for the last 100000... generations... the drawback in being involved in a winning campaign is you have to do it again... and there are some very difficult decisions that are required to continue the gravy train... who gets the roads contracts? My brother... or my other brother?

Social media however has freed us from the pettiness of modern elected politics so the instances of any possible conflicts of interest in any of the interests of any of YYC's municipal mayoral candidates... is rare like the beef...

In YYC voters have a real chance to meet the mayor... and later tweet an OMG to their WTF'S...

This blog is about teaching how to joke a campaign... again you will need skills handout #1 a watchful eye for comedy and laughter...all in the hopes of covering the campaign with ignorance in the form of joke as our medium...

Today's exercise... after the Love-In... making fun of the obvious events from Nomination day...

Truth: On Monday the candidates put down their money and signatures...
Truth: Network media covered the event...
Truth: Social Media covered the event...
Truth: Homeless shelters enjoyed the leftovers...

For those of you in the Wit and Writing for Women Meetup it would be... the power of 3...

The most surprising name at the nomination was Jack Frost... are we ever going to see the sun?


Kent Hehr bowed out of the race after running a spirited... pre campaign I guess... I was worried because if he had gained any traction and came close the headline would be "Missed by a Kent Hehr"


It was reported a Grade 2 class was at City Hall for the event as a part of show and tell. The kids were upset because none of the candidates would tell and when they looked in the bushes they got more show than they wanted...


So... for those of you following along with skills handout#1 it was satire, mocking, disdain, exaggeration, power of 3, call back, the opposite, rhyme,casual, and again... boring...