An Oklahoma Mayor makes like Michael Jackson in a door to door campaign
You know, in politics, it’s quite hard to come up with new ideas. Most of the problems you encounter are familiar ones – and most of the solutions seem to involve doing the same stuff that countless other folks have tried before you.
Which, incidentally, comes close to the working definition of insanity: expecting a different outcome while doing the same stuff over and over again.
Politicians always like to talk about ‘thinking outside the box.’ Not many of them ever do, of course. They may be ticked off by that old box but ticking off familiar boxes is all they ever learned to do.
So, hats off to Edmond’s mayor Saundra Naifeh who, for once, came with a highly original idea to stop kids from drinking.
She took that old cliché ‘If you can’t beat them, join them’ and turned it around in a quite revolutionary way, ‘Don’t join them but beat off instead!’
Michael Jackson would have been so proud…
EDMOND, Okla. - The mayor personally distributed thousands of fliers discouraging underage drinking only to find they mistakenly contained the phone number for a sex talk line.
Edmond Mayor Saundra Naifeh and more than five dozen volunteers went door-to-door Saturday to deliver 22,000 fliers. The city attorney notified Naifeh Saturday night after the police department learned of the mistake.
“Obviously, it made me feel sick,” Naifeh said. “I had a blister on one foot (from going door-to-door) when the city attorney told me the number was wrong. I have no idea how the error happened.”
Callers dialing the number were promised “exciting live talk” if they called a second number offering provocative telephone conversations or text messages costing 99 cents to $2.99 a minute.
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