Karen Brooks is Bold

By Ryan Burns / Jan. 3, 11:46 a.m.

Karen Brooks has yet to officially kick off her campaign for the Third District seat on the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors. (That’ll happen with pancakes Saturday morning at Arcata’s D Street Community Center.) But she has already demonstrated a refreshing boldness. For one thing, she’s a member (or perhaps former member) of the Humboldt Tea Party Patriots campaigning in Humboldt County’s most liberal/progressive district. That’s bold.

Even bolder? Her campaign website, which has been painstakingly designed to burn itself permanentaly onto viewers’ retinas.

Meet Karen Brooks

Set on a backdrop of fever-blister pink, Brooks logo appears in a flower-adorned font that’s fondly reminiscent of Austin Powers and The Partridge Family.

Her portrait, superimposed over the road to Hobbiton, is framed by yet more flowers, which come in hues that reveal nature to be either lazy or unimaginative:

Karen Brooks

And under the link for “ideas” you’ll find a vision for Humboldt County that truly embraces the Tea Party ethos of limited government:

Ideas

Plus, she’s already saved Seven-O-Heaven!

UPDATE (1:22 p.m.): The website’s banner has already been changed:

UPDATE #2 (4:48 p.m.): The website has been taken down.

10 Comments

Comment / By Ken Malcomson / Jan. 3, 2:25 p.m.

Wow. The Tea Party has a blank slate of ideas! Funny, I thought I heard some weird stuff once from those idiots about Constitutional limits on government power and defending a society with significant personal freedom…but I guess that was just static. Ha ha! Karen Brooks has “no” ideas! Hilarious! Thanks for the link. And here I was ready to mock her just because the local media whiz kids told me I should. ;)

Comment / By Buzz / Jan. 3, 3:07 p.m.

She won’t be as popular as Pepto Bismol, but she’s certainly aiming at the same demographic.

Comment / By Mitch / Jan. 3, 5:42 p.m.

The Partridge Family psychedelia is building on the political success of “The Brady Bunch” as a slogan.

Hey, never argue with success.

Comment / By Buzz / Jan. 3, 5:47 p.m.

I guess that she thinks that the people who supported Lovelace like marshmallow unicorns. It wouldn’t occur to her that Lovelace garners so much support because he’s hardworking, competent and intelligent.

Comment / By Flat Mo / Jan. 5, 8:56 p.m.

This is Marian Brady’s best work to date

Comment / By Nauseous / Jan. 7, 11:18 a.m.

Ouch!!!

Comment / By anon.r.mous / Jan. 7, 12:08 p.m.

Website is up?

It’s pretty groovy. Not quite as “out there” as Ape Canyon, but it’s got it’s own thing going.

Comment / By buzz / Jan. 9, 5:04 p.m.

“We are like no other country in the world and last great vestige for freedom”?

Comment / By Ken Malcomson / Jan. 10, 12:48 p.m.

Sorry, Buzz. I get a little worked up sometimes. Forgot the “the” and meant to write “of”. Thanks for helping. :)

Comment / By Buzz / Jan. 11, 8:38 a.m.

I was just quoting from her website. The combination of ignorance and bad syntax doesn’t do much to burnish what little credibility she has.