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Shoo. A person leaves town for a few days and everybody freaks out because a mayoral candidate sends an email and I’m not immediately responding to messages. Hoo boy. I’m glad this wasn’t the end of the world, otherwise we all could have died.
Here’s a screenshot of the email:
SCREENSHOT
The King campaign explained things thusly in a press release:
“The Jim King for Mayor campaign sent you an evite to a fundraiser. Our intention was to send this communication only to friends and supporters. It was not our intention to imply that St. X endorsed the event. This evite and the distribution was not approved by St. X. To avoid confusion that this event is related to St. X it will be cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused.”
The campaign further told me that the email from the camp wasn’t approved to be sent to the entire distribution list – that the individual responsible for email blasts (someone contracted out by the campaign’s communications firm) sent the blast out – unapproved – to the entire list, not a pre-selected list of local supporters.
And in a story written by Joe Gerth, the campaign said the alumni distribution list is available via it’s website – something St. X needs to, you know, feel immediately ridiculous about.
Tierney said the campaign got the names and e-mail addresses from St. X’s Web site, which allows graduates who register to access its database to find contact information for old classmates.
“I think somewhere along the way, the communication broke down and it got distributed to a broader list than friends, classmates and supporters,” Tierney said.
St. X alum should fix that. And maybe should have been aware that the entire alum list is freely available on its website?
How mean of Jim King. He is so mean.
10 responses so far ↓
1 Chris // Nov 23, 2009 at 6:37 pm
If anyone honestly believes that they really didn’t intentionally send that email to every single address in the alumni directory, then I have a bridge in the east end of Jefferson county I’d like to sell you.
It’s always easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
2 chief // Nov 23, 2009 at 8:12 pm
I gotta say that King is being picked on Here!…WTF!….He is a son of ST. X. just like anyone who graduated from the school, I’d say that earns him the right to access that list as an Alumni?….Not to mention he’s most likely made contributions to the school over the years like many of us that went to St.X or Trinity….Why the school would be so HARSH and over reactive is stupid .
I’m NOT a big supporter of King, but in the sense of Fairness, the Courier and the other media should be keeping that close an eye on the incumbent KnuckleHead that is Mayor and let these canidates have at least 60 days to get some info out!
King is no Saint, but at least he and Chris Theineman are the only two who understand business!….The ST. X response was uncalled for!
3 George // Nov 23, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Thieneman and King are the only ones who understand business??? WTF? Fischer and Heiner both have run successful companies. I’m tired of the “King is being picked on” garbage, King continually creates his own problems by breaching ethics and trying to buy off everyone in town. He’s made his own bed with most of this stuff.
4 Mark H (Not Hebert) // Nov 23, 2009 at 11:19 pm
At what point do the “oops I didn’t know what I was doing” excuses run out?
Let’s see:
He didn’t know he could “loan” Katie money
He didn’t know the shakedown letter to the Firefighters was inappropriate
He didn’t mean to send out hi St. X fund raising blast for the whole Alumni list
Is it coincidence that none of his “omissions” hasn’t fallen into the King’s benefit? When you make mistakes and they always fall into your favor, they’re not mistakes.
5 St. X // Nov 23, 2009 at 11:30 pm
I wish Jim would either shave or let it grow out, he always looks bum-like to me, I think he’s going for “folksy” but somehow its not working
6 Chris // Nov 23, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Sorry Chief, but I disagree. I’m alumni of St. X, and UK and UofL and I don’t believe that makes me instant fodder for ANY politician’s campaign mailing machine. I agree that St. X should have had tighter control over their registry, but this is dirty pool and it’s done nothing but turn me off as a prospective King supporter. St. X’s response is far from uncalled for.
7 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) // Nov 24, 2009 at 12:25 am
King and Thieneman the only two who understand business?
What about the other two successful businessmen, Allen and Fischer?
8 garyguss // Nov 24, 2009 at 8:50 am
Not to forget Tyler Allen … think bus wraps and USA Image Technologies
9 Fred // Nov 24, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Is tyler allen even running for mayor? his campaign thus far has been laughable. money talks and we’ll see if he’s actually running when the next kref report hits 12/31.
10 Raoul Duke // Nov 24, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Chief, it would be just fine for King to reference his graduation from St. X in his bio. It’s another thing to use their logo in his advertising. I drive a Ford and I bet Ford Motor Company would sue me if i used their blue oval in a manner that indicated that FOMOCO endorsed my campaign.
The Saint X logo is a distinctive trademark. The school is identified by it. What if one of my fellow alumni opened up a strip joint and sent flyers out that featured the distinctive cross in the X logo and invited alumni to stop in for a cold beer and a hot time? Would St X. have a beef with him? What’s the difference?
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