May 26, 2004

Free Bikes for Votes!

Oops. I mean, free bikes for academic success:


"The Harris County Republican Party took a marketing strategy successfully used by Coca-Cola and Nike to the East End on Tuesday in hopes of building inroads with Houston's Hispanic voters.

Local GOP Chairman Jared Woodfill and two Hispanic Republican judges handed out about 246 bicycles to students of J.R. Harris Elementary School."


There's something about this that makes me very uncomfortable. Exploiting children for political gain is so sleazy and disgusting. Some folks will argue that Dems should follow suit but I'm not so sure that we want to start down that path...

Found via Off the Kuff.

Posted by sarah at May 26, 2004 10:02 AM | TrackBack