Just days after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) indicated he would cede campaigning in Oregon to John Kasich, local media outlets reported the Ohio governor was nowhere to be found on the state’s pamphlet for voters.
Cruz and frontrunner Donald Trump are the only Republicans that show up in the state-issued literature, which features a statement and photo of all the candidates that will appear on the state’s ballot on May 17.
The Register-Guard described the pamphlet as “one of the most cost-effective advertising tools in the state” because it’s free and mailed out to every Oregon household, about 1.5 million in total.
Presidential candidates can either pay $3,500 for a half-page statement or get in for free by submitting 500 signatures from supporters.
The pamphlet includes Kasich’s name among the 2016 GOP hopefuls in the table of contents but notes he chose not to submit a statement.
The news comes after the Cruz and Kasich campaigns said they would focus on campaigning in states where each has the best chances of beating Trump: Cruz in Indiana and Kasich in Oregon and New Mexico.
But Kasich bungled the plan in action on Monday, saying he wouldn’t urge his supporters to vote for anyone else.
View the pamphlet online via the Oregon Secretary of State‘s office.
There’s the highly professional and slick campaigning we have come to expect from Republican candidates.
So…which unpaid staffer intern’s job was it to make sure the sample ballot flier was taken care of?
Republicans used to be so good at “keeping on message”. I first heard the very name of this site–talking points memo–from the concept that every day every prominent GOP figure got the word on what to say, who to criticize, and how. They marched in lock-step.
Now, the “clown-car” insult seems all too real. Even if they know what they want, they bungle the execution badly.
The Republican Party has really turned into Monty Python’s Silly Party!
Yeah, but they lack the gravitas of the Silly Party.
So a couple months ago, he thought Oregon wasn’t worth the trouble of sending a statement and a picture, and now it’s one of his prime states. And this is the ostensibly reality-based republican.