Fun with campaign signs – Hallman Edition

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Posted by Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings

Hugh Hallman, a former mayor of Tempe, is showing his “not ready for prime time” status with his current campaign signs.

This year, he’s running for Arizona State Treasurer against two other Rs (no Democratic candidates are in the race, so that one will be decided in the R primary).

State treasurer is a low-profile position, so low profile that even knowledgeable activists don’t know much about it.  And average voters?

They might know the job exists, but not much else.

And it appears that Hallman is looking to take advantage of that ignorance with misleading campaign signs –

 

 

The problem with this sign (and he has the same verbiage on his website)?

Other than period pilgrimages over to the lege to beg lobby for a bigger chunk of it, the state treasurer has almost NOTHING to do with the state’s budget.

The budget is within the purview of the legislature, and they aren’t giving up that one; the only reason that they pay any attention to the governor regarding the budget is because of the governor’s veto power.

The state treasurer doesn’t have that, and so is ignored.

However, the average voter doesn’t know the nitty-gritty of Arizona governance, so we get signs like this.

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4 thoughts on “Fun with campaign signs – Hallman Edition”

  1. What’s not understood about the Treasurer’s office and Hugh’s sign stating Balance Arizona’s Budget is that the Treasurer should assume leadership to be an advocate for voters on issues important to all of us. A candidate running for State Treasure should advocate to balance the budget since it involves how we manage and spend our taxpayer’s money. If the Treasurer’s office doesn’t advocate for a balanced budget, who will.

  2. I want to take a picture with Huppenthal’s sign and a sock puppet standing above it.

  3. Check out Randy Pullen’s website–his first priority appears to be (wait for it). . . IMMIGRATION. And he’s been endorsed by Symington, Horne and Thucky-err—Huppenthal. Dogwhistle politics at its best for these two. Jeff DeWit appears to have some basic grasp of the job description, however. Where are the Dems?

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