Comments on: Worst of the Week: Chet Culver http://www.admavericks.com/2009/10/09/worst-of-the-week-chet-culver/ Lessing-Flynn - Advertising In Des Moines, IA Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:40:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Claire Celsi http://www.admavericks.com/2009/10/09/worst-of-the-week-chet-culver/#comment-226 Claire Celsi Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:36:52 +0000 http://admavericks.com/?p=2211#comment-226 At the risk of disagreeing with my wonderful friends at Lessing Flynn, I want to point out that NOTHING the governor did (or even his office) caused any of these situations. Yes, he is responsible, ultimately, but I believe he's been rather decisive and a leader in both the budget shortfall and the film office thing. He made nearly immediate moves on both. As tough as those decisions were, he did not dilly-dally. I also tend to disagree in this situation about social media. Yes, he could be following a few more people on Twitter...but the mainstream media has the edge in this situation. A news conference covered by outlets across the state gives information pretty quickly. When it's coming straight out of the governor's mouth, you don't necessarily need to Tweet it, because it will almost immediately make it to Twitter. I have been impressed by the speed at which the film office audit was made public. That is fairly unusual as well. Anyone who thinks the Big Lug is a shrinking violet has never been around when some governor from another state tries to change their caucus date before Iowa's. It's convenient to blame him for all of our state's many ills, but the truth is, Iowa is in a much better position than most other states, our credit rating is sterling, and for the most part, we have well-meaning and altruistic public servants in elected office. At the risk of disagreeing with my wonderful friends at Lessing Flynn, I want to point out that NOTHING the governor did (or even his office) caused any of these situations. Yes, he is responsible, ultimately, but I believe he’s been rather decisive and a leader in both the budget shortfall and the film office thing. He made nearly immediate moves on both. As tough as those decisions were, he did not dilly-dally.

I also tend to disagree in this situation about social media. Yes, he could be following a few more people on Twitter…but the mainstream media has the edge in this situation. A news conference covered by outlets across the state gives information pretty quickly. When it’s coming straight out of the governor’s mouth, you don’t necessarily need to Tweet it, because it will almost immediately make it to Twitter.

I have been impressed by the speed at which the film office audit was made public. That is fairly unusual as well.

Anyone who thinks the Big Lug is a shrinking violet has never been around when some governor from another state tries to change their caucus date before Iowa’s.

It’s convenient to blame him for all of our state’s many ills, but the truth is, Iowa is in a much better position than most other states, our credit rating is sterling, and for the most part, we have well-meaning and altruistic public servants in elected office.

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