Signs of Desperation

State Senate Candidate Pat Kreitlow and the Democrat State Senate Committee have put some interesting spin on the race for the 23rd State Senate seat lately.

Kreitlow's Corner

Candidate Kreitlow suggests that a pre Labor Day proliferation of Zien lawn signs throughout the district is a sign of a desperate campaign. Kreitlow says the signs are likely to be ignored come November "because they will have been around for so long."

That sounds like something a campaign manager would say to appease an anxious candidate who wants to know why his opponent has so many signs and he doesn't have any.

The conversation might have gone something like this:

"Everywhere I go I see those damn Zien signs. I must have seen at least 20 on my way over here. Why don't we have our signs yet? How many did we order and will they get here? I can't win this race without yard signs."

"Pat, it's too early for lawn signs. You never put lawn signs up before Labor Day. Zien's just wasting his money. By the time November rolls around, people won't even remember seeing them. Why don't you go home and post something on your blog."

And that's how Littering the Landscape was inspired.

A full 10 weeks ahead of Election Day, the lawn signs are out there cluttering the view, soon to be ignored because they will have been around for so long. So when you see the big white "Z" scrawled across a large blue sign, remember what you're really seeing across the Wisconsin political climate... signs of desperation.

Democratic State Senate Committee Dismisses Polls

According to Matt Swentkofske, director of the Democratic State Senate Committee, two separate polls showing Dave Zien with a double digit lead over Pat Kreitlow just can't be accurate.

According to Swentkofske, supporters in the district called the campaign to say the poll questions were slanted against Kreitlow. (I think they call that testing the issues.)

He went on to say that Zien hasn't done anything significant enough to move the poll numbers so substantially from May.

"He hasn't done mail. He hasn't done any voter contact stuff. I still see his bike at the Capitol," Swentkofske. "I don't see how his numbers would move anyway."

Maybe it was all those yards signs...