It saddened me to read my friend Paul Hagen's comments about Richard Salzman. I know and respect both Paul and Richard, and I must correct one serious error in Paul's letter. While it is true that several recent local political campaigns have hired outside-of-Humboldt political consultants, Richard Salzman had nothing to do with that. In fact, he advised against it. I have worked as a paid Advertising Consultant on dozens of local political campaigns over the past three decades, so I have some insight into who is working for whom. I'm proud to say that outside consultants do not understand Humboldt County politics and my personal dealings with several of them have only reinforced my belief. The voters in Humboldt don't buy the Big City sales pitch.
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John Graves
on 04/12/2012 at 5:30 PM
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Re: “‘Surly Cur' Salzman”
It saddened me to read my friend Paul Hagen's comments about Richard Salzman. I know and respect both Paul and Richard, and I must correct one serious error in Paul's letter. While it is true that several recent local political campaigns have hired outside-of-Humboldt political consultants, Richard Salzman had nothing to do with that. In fact, he advised against it. I have worked as a paid Advertising Consultant on dozens of local political campaigns over the past three decades, so I have some insight into who is working for whom. I'm proud to say that outside consultants do not understand Humboldt County politics and my personal dealings with several of them have only reinforced my belief. The voters in Humboldt don't buy the Big City sales pitch.