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Flaherty's missing measures

Published by Tim McNulty on .

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We've had some fun with county exec candidate Mark Patrick Flaherty's website before . . . and now we're returning to the well.

Flaherty's camp tweeted yesterday afternoon that it had posted a video to his site on "weights and measures" (see above) and we were immediately interested, thinking it could give us a preview of the Democrat's advertising strategy. But as of noon the video still hasn't been posted as far as we can tell.

We're told it is just the old vid from last year anyway, one that took some heat today from (Smizik/Kovacevic fave) Chad Hermann, regarding his annoyance with the stickers the controller has placed on gas pumps (and I think cash registers) around the county. Here's Chad:

Since everyone who lives in the county is paying for them, I think we should all be listed on his campaign finance reports. And be thankful that they aren’t affixed to thousand-dollar trash cans, or maybe hospital scales, that we’re also paying for.

Here's the clip in question (which Flaherty televised using campaign money last year):

 

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