Vote No for Yes…Yes for No…Huh?

Having a conversation today with a co-worker about a question  we ask around here often:

Should we do direct mail for this campaign or not?

We both are thinking no. It’s expensive. It doesn’t work as well as it used to, and really, who reads their office mail anymore?

He suggested starting a campaign he’d call Propostion 1, with the message:

Vote No on Direct Mail.

But I told him, if it were a true proposition, you’d have to make it a YES vote for no direct mail, and a NO vote for direct mail, so it’s written in true political backwards speak.

He’d have to get the postal service and various state groups to support a NO vote in an attempt thoroughly confuse people.  Then he’d need various other state groups, two or three random guys and the Pulp Paper Commission to support a YES vote. And, of course, he’d have to run incomprehensibly stupid ads on radio and TV that support both sides but do nothing more than make people want to avoid voting at all.

So remember, this November, vote YES if you don’t want direct mail, NO if you do.

Who couldn’t see this ridiculousness as a real proposition on the ballot?