Joe and Whats Up–You guys have good points.
Here is the thread–
Democratic and Republican activists are suppressed from delivering product for their candidate because Tigereye has this contract, but typically delivers late. Yesterday several customers said they tried to buy from the official website, but the product would be weeks late in delivery.
As for you guys (apart from the Tigereye plants) who say this doesn’t matter look at this way:
–These contracts are delivered on what is essentially a no-bid basis. Why didn’t these campaigns put out an RFQ inviting proposals, one of the stipulations of which is that the winner be a union shop?
–Or better yet, stipulate that that the SHIRTS and all the various materials have to be made in the USA by union labor (since this is the real industrial element) and then open the production of merchandise to multiple vendors so that single person shops and activists earning travel money can move the product. Under this scenario what would be controlled is the image, logo etc. and a proportion of the money would be paid to the campaign.
This idea would be great too for funding activists as they follow campaigns. There is an army of young people who are in the Obama campaign who are living off nothing and dependent upon handouts from the locals for room and board. This instead of handing the job of enforcement to these activists.
Thanks again to Steve Gill for doing the article. Despite what no-nothings or BJ artists for Tigereye say here, you’ve done a great service to a small industry and it demonstrates genuine reportage rarely seen in the comment-heavy blogosphere.
