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Colorado's controversial Secretary of State, Scott Gessler, today launched a volunteer drive for his reelection campaign by announcing what he's calling "Honey Badges," wearable tokens of Gessler's esteem to be presented for volunteer-hour milestones. Not satisfied with autographing his "Honey Badger" Westword cover for campaign donors, the SoS will offer Honey Badges as rewards for volunteer tasks throughout his reelection campaign. Volunteers who collect Honey Badges can redeem them for prizes at various levels.
Apparently amused by critics who coined the "Honey Badger" moniker as a reference to Gessler's alleged disregard for numerous ethical standards of his office, the Secretary of State told reporters this morning, "I'm just going to run with it, you know? There's no such thing as bad publicity–I mean, if you know what to do with it. After I'm through with public service, I'm thinking of hiring the Westword editorial board to do PR for my law practice." Gessler wore a Honey Badge on his own lapel for the hastily organized press conference on the lawn of Westminster's beloved Butterfly Pavilion.
Gessler supporters and members of the press received a one-sheet handout detailing a few tasks that will earn Honey Badges for volunteers, as well as a smattering of possible rewards:
How to earn Honey Badges:
Redeem your Honey Badges for:
Happy Honey hunting, Badgers!
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Is this an April Fool joke? You should probably say so.
Oh man, he left you off the press release list? 🙁 I'm sorry, Arapa. At least the checks are still clearing, I hope? I'm sure it was just an oversight. Maybe it's in your junk email folder?
What's hilarious is you're asking, not stating. Shows how even you believe Gessler might do something like this.
This is probably what confused Arap — while it sounded about right as a disincentive to the volunteers, he probably wondered why Gessler would say that publicly. You know, like the Romney volunteer only registering Republican leaning new voters.
I thought you w knew all the stuff we don't know, ArapG.