Who is Contacting Me? for June 26 2010
Ken Matlusky contacted me today via post card.
Pretty nice. His picture is a little red (communist?). Running for State Auditor it seems. He claims that he’ll better protect whistle blowers and reduce outsourcing of auditor jobs to outside firms. He is a licensed CPA and graduated form some little mid-western University called Notre Dame (French?) and Salesianum HS (Catholic?).
I met Ken at something or other. He seems like a nice guy.
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The Coons email from June 24th reads:
Dear Friends,
We will be postponing our event at the home of John Quintus in Newark originally scheduled for this Saturday to a later date. I am sorry about the inconvenience, but I look forward to seeing you all when we reschedule the event.
Thank you very much for your support!
Best Chris,
PS. I have a fundraising deadline of June 30th which I am working hard to reach my goal. Please help me reach my goal and donate at www.chriscoons.com/UrgentJune30
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Oh my…look who’s back? Was just chatting about you the other night wondering when you’d make your (inevitable) return!
He kind of snuck in quietly by the side door.
I get a lot of email from Velda Jones-Potter, BTW.
I get tons of solicitations for donations. It’s hard to keep up.
It is not hard for me to keep up because hardly anybody contacts me. I did see a Chip Flowers yard sign though.
Matlusky sent me a letter written on notebook paper. Nice guy but seems like a deer in the headlights. Have never heard from Korn. Probably will sit this race out or write UI’s name in.
You didn’t get the Coons follow up? It should be in your inbox. Didn’t Coons get any takers?
June 26th Event–POSTPONED! Thu, 6/24/10
Dear Friends,
We will be postponing our event at the home of John Quintus in Newark originally scheduled for this Saturday to a later date. I am sorry about the inconvenience, but I look forward to seeing you all when we reschedule the event.
Thank you very much for your support!
Best,
Chris
PS. I have a fundraising deadline of June 30th which I am working hard to reach my goal. Please help me reach my goal and donate at http://www.chriscoons.com/UrgentJune30!
I also received a long, hand-written note from Matlusky probably 5 months ago. He asked me to contact him so I called and left a message which he never responded to. When I saw him at the Newark DEM Joint Committee meeting and asked him WHAT UP KEN? he admitted that he had gotten my phone message but hadn’t had ‘time’ to get back to me.
…whatever.
This Coons e-mail is disturbing. If it was only sent to people who had intended to go to the event to inform them of its cancellation that wouldn’t be so bad, but given Nancy Willing received it as well, and unless things have changed she wouldn’t be donating money and attending a Coons fundraiser, it looks like the cancellation e-mail was widely distributed. The e-mail doesn’t give a reason for the postponement, which makes Nancy’s statement that Coons’ must not have gotten enough people willing to attend seem likely. I would think if it was postponed due to circumstances with the host (illness, death of a relative, etc) Coons would have made some mention of that, and maybe added the our prayers go to John and his sister’s family, or we hope John quickly recovers from H1N1, but to not state why the event is being postponed makes it appear to be due to insufficient RSVP’s to the event. If that’s the case I think it would be better to go ahead with a low turn out event, than to telegraph to a larger audience the difficulty he’s having raising money after getting the low hanging fruit on his first quarter report.
Like Nancy, I was not on the original distribution list. And yes, I’d have tried to make similar hay if this came from Castle.
Jason,
You didn’t get an e-mail (or snail mail invite) inviting you to the event, but you got the cancelation notice by e-mail? Seriously I don’t know who is running his campaign, but I’m not impressed. If you cancel a fund raising event, give a reason, if there isn’t a reason that doesn’t look bad (something other than “due to lack of people interested in attending”) then go ahead and announce the cancellation, so that no one who planned on going but hadn’t RSVP’d doesn’t show up. But under no circumstances cancel a fund raising event without explanation, and without a new date scheduled for the event, and then beg for campaign donations to everyone who gets the e-mail. It looks far worse than rumors about a low turn out event!