Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Why I’m Not Voting for Geoffrey VanderPal for NV State Treasurer
Too many font changes. Too many glaring spelling errors. Poor grammar. Odd sentence structure. Doofus. Plus, I’m not voting for a financial planner who filed for personal bankruptcy. I know that sometimes bad things happen beyond our control (for instance, doctors/surgery centers charging $14,000 each for some worthless shots), but I think those of us who have our own debts shouldn’t be handling the state’s money. He may be a lovely man and an excellent financial planner, but bad spelling/grammar and a bankruptcy makes me choose the prim sounding knitting lady. Also, I find her ten year old daughter kind of charming in a “I can relate” way. Anna’s other passions are science and finding excuses not to do homework. Some of her latest excuses are: “It’s Monday, and I don’t have any really important homework until Thursday.” “It’s Wednesday and the week is really long in the middle.” “The teacher went over it so much in class I can’t even remember what I am supposed to study, and anyway I know it all.” “Can I have a snack?”
For the past four years, Geoffrey VanderPal has been frantically trying to hide his 2006 campaign ad, which is full of embarrassing grammatical and spelling errors. Want your very own copy of the ad to post on your own blog? .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Coming soon: actual quotes from the ad! (Updated: I filed an appeal to his DMCA filing and since it’s been so long, I’m putting the original ad back. Sorry it’s smaller. I don’t recall what I did with the original file or the original ad. It still shows you all the spelling, grammar, and other mistakes.
Endorsements, issue 2: Democratic Treasurer Primary - from the blog, “Reno and its Discontents”
ERASING THE PAST - from the Las Vegas Review Journal
Geoffrey Vanderpal and Sue Scheff, spending big bucks to spam search engines trying to erase the past - here’s a story from the Washington Post, in case you’d like to spend big bucks trying to erase your past, too. You know, if they actually added valuable content to the search engines it would be one thing, but signing up for one account after another at dozens of domains and just copying & pasting your bio just clutters up search engines. It doesn’t take more than a few seconds of thinking to know how to get your site to rank well in a search engine, but it takes effort and consistency. Spam (generally) doesn’t overtake content.
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Also: Notice the weird capitalization? ‘Thousands’, ‘Financial Planning’, ‘Financial Security’? Hope he’s better with Excel than with Word!
Robin on 08/14 at 12:06 PM -
I have the same reaction - not necessarily with politicians but with people in general. That’s the quickest way to lose my attention/respect. For example, if you spell ‘investmants’ like that, I’m unlikely to trust you with mine. You should see some of the resumes we get - often funny, like the person writing that one of their strong points is “attention, to detail” or “saperior language skills”. We all make typos, sure, but spellcheck is your friend. And if you have an actual one who’s literate (friend, that is) for the love of Pete, ask them to look over your ad/resume/report! EEEK!
Helly on 08/14 at 03:19 PM -
Robin, I forgot to mention the weird capitalization. It was the first thing we noticed when we saw the ad in the paper. It’s like he was writing in German…but not.
Helly, that ad must’ve cost a fortune, so I’m just stunned that no one checked the spelling, at the very least. Of course, looking at the mistakes, I suppose they would’ve need the grammar check to catch those mistakes. But seriously, so MANY in just one ad. Horrible.
Flippy on 08/14 at 11:29 PM -
Don’t trust him, if you go deeper in his personality, he will be the next maddof! Now you know what I mean!
kana on 04/04 at 05:44 PM -
Awhile ago,this gentleman who says thet he is respectable did something very bad! Actually he got caught..but is still trying to pretend that he is one honorable guy…it almost ruin his whole career…thats what you get from a person who bought his diploma from a non reputable university…its sad all his ads says he is the best!when he is the opposite,the worst kind you will get in this valley, BEWARE FOLKS!
nevada link on 05/09 at 02:15 AM -
what goes around, comes around…now hes fooling the people of texas…beware texas…i will never invest even a dollar with this fool…he will take you to your grave quickly…remember ...an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth…
kana on 06/07 at 12:52 AM
