300,000 Plumbers for Obama
Since January, the 300,000 members of the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters have been supporters of Barack Obama. From the group's endorsement:
Barack Obama is the choice of the UA because he has always fought for working people throughout his career and will do the best job of bringing badly-needed change to Washington. Obama will help us keep existing jobs and work to develop new, higher paying jobs here in America, reform our health care system, fix our ailing schools and make sure that the pensions of our retirees are safe.
So, with McCain traveling the country boasting about "Joe," what can we do to get the real word out about Obama and the real plumbers? Why isn't this union campaigning aggressively? How can we get their message out?
Here's the ad: focus on one working man/woman. He/she speaks: I'm Joe/Josephine, and I'm a plumber. Camera zooms out showing Joe/Josephine surrounded by other members of the union, eventually revealing hundreds, (thousands?) of plumbers. As zoom progresses out word individuals call out their names individually, ('I'm Frank the plumber', 'I'm jeff the plumber', etc.). As the screen is filled with all of these plumbers they shout in unison, (dubbed later in sound studio): ' And we support Barack Obama!' .
I don't know why the union isn't campaigning aggressively, but it seems like an opening for Barack to utilize their endorsement.
October 23, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
'out word' to read 'outward'.
October 23, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink