Mayor Marty Chavez Steals From You and Yours to Pay for His Tomorrows.

By Maassive on October 6th, 2009

OK, I know we’re Santa Fe and we shouldn’t mess around with Albuquerque politics, but tomorrow is election day and…I can’t help myself. This is, hands down, the silliest 11th hour appeal I’ve ever read from a candidate. You may need to click to enlarge.

For the search engine crawlers, here’s the text of Mayor Marty Chavez’s 10pm, election eve tweet:

I humbly ask u 4 ur vote tomorrow & ur help keeping ABQ moving forward. Click here 2 find your polling place tomorrow: http://bit.ly/138s6h

OK, so set aside for a moment that the Mayor of Albuquerque is writing messages to us as if we were 15 year olds. That’s just annoying and a little bit pathetic. One could even argue it encourages illiteracy. But, no, let’s not go there. Let’s analyze.

Mayor Chavez spells out “tomorrow” not once, but twice, a totally of 16 characters. In order to pay for his double helping of tomorrow, he steals six letters from you and yours. He collects another eight letters by gutting Albuquerque. Then he cuts corners with the prepositions and leaves a single unspent character. Technically, he can claim he’s a pay-as-you-go type of Tweeter, who can come in under budget to boot.

Call me capricious, but if I was a voter teetering between Chavez and challenger Richard Romero, this slimy tweet the night before would’ve pushed me over. But maybe I’m reading too much into it…. (ba-dum-dum).

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2 Responses to “Mayor Marty Chavez Steals From You and Yours to Pay for His Tomorrows.”

  1. Charlie Pabst
    October 6th, 2009 at 8:16 am

    I am moving from our capital city down to ABQ– and as a confused liberal, I wish I could go vote for RJ.

    Well, I wish I could knock the “sanctuary city” speak from RJ’s mouth, and then vote for him– but that’s a double-hypothetical.

  2. Szupergipsy
    January 7th, 2010 at 6:19 am

    I lived in in Albuquerque from 1995 to 2009. I have never seen a town go tru so many positive changes in my live. Marty Chavez was a good leader for Albuquerque, he made this town catch up with the times. I am sure he isn’t the cleanest politician outhere, but I don’t know any that is perfectly clean. Bottom line, he is a good leader.


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