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Tag: Rep. Kate Segal

Mom's Getting Wealthy on What Could Be A Mammal

By Rougman, Section News
Posted on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 11:48:47 AM EST
Tags: Rep. Kate Segal, MYCA, budget (all tags)

I painted some beautiful horses when I was a kid. All that it took to get me started on what I was certain would become a highly successful painting career was a few bucks and the discerning purchase of a paint-by-number kit.

Many a long hour was spent as I began to slowly fill in the canvases' sections with exotic colors mysteriously referred to as number 3, 7, or 9. As patches of the canvas were one by one filled in with splashes of color, a spectacular stallion's image appeared. (I also remember doing one with a Mommy and Baby horse. Unfortunately by the time I had finished it looked more like a T-Rex being nuzzled by a goat.)

Those same paint by number kits are oddly similar to the way things work in politics. Political strategists are students of demographics, trends, and human nature, and they have a very good grasp on how certain target constituencies will respond to particular messages. This is why they are paid a lot of money by political bodies while food banks' shelves remain almost empty--they know exactly how to break down the hugely complex issues facing society today into small easy steps. They know, in effect, what color to paint certain patches.

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