By doing so,
Ted Jackson appropriates a basic logic of postmodern capitalist culture:
...
It is also the prototype for
Ted Jackson's version of political life under a Republican market society.The way to win "brand loyalty," for the long-term, with carefully targeted populations, is to practice politics the QVC way, and fuse the identity of the organization (the Republican party) and icons of its leader ("W") with that of its appropriately chosen and high quality commodities.
It's a building block to "stage six," where the high-quality branded commodity (and the services connected to that commodity) are a synecdoche for the Republican Party, and ultimately, for the government of the United States.This is what I believe that
Ted Jackson meant by titling
his article for PPB Online, "Riding the Coattails of Brand Loyalty."[29]
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[3] This statement hovers above a short biography of
Ted Jackson on a sub page of "The Commonwealth Group: Strategic Public Affairs" Web site.
Jackson is also senior legal counsel for this Kentucky-based,
Public Relations and Corporate Advocacy Group.The URL of the biography is http://www.thecommonwealthgroup.com/tjackson.html
[4] The term "collateral material" is
Ted Jackson's.
...
[5]
Jackson,
Ted."Riding the Coattails of Brand Loyalty," Promotional Products Business Online, 07/00.Available at
http://www.ppai.org/Publications/PPB/Article.asp?NewsID=238 The Commonwealth Group last month sold its lobbying business to Tallahassee, Fla.-based Southern Strategy Group, which will open an office -- Southern Strategy of Kentucky LLC -- in Frankfort in the coming weeks. Southern Strategy currently operates offices in seven additional Southern states.
Terms of the sale of Commonwealth's lobbying business were not disclosed. The business' 21 lobbying clients accounted for about 38 percent of The Commonwealth Group's estimated $1.3 million in revenue in 2005, Mulloy said.
Terms of the agreements were not disclosed.
The Commonwealth Group is a Louisville-based public-policy and public-affairs firm that focuses on communication strategies and lobbying activities. Power Creative was hired to redesign and update the firm's Web site.
Ted Jackson, a partner in the Louisville governmental affairs firm The Commonwealth Group and owner of the English Emprise marketing company, is leading a local effort to show support for President George W. Bush and the U.S. military.
In response to a national billboard campaign by the Peace Roots Alliance (peaceroots.org), Jackson and a group of 65 donors have purchased a billboard along Interstate 65 south that reads "Support President Bush and Our Troops."
Jackson also is establishing a Web site, http://www.supportpresidentbush.net, which is set to go online this weekend. Through the site, he plans to provide free artwork for similar billboard campaigns across the country, according to a news release.
In the release, Jackson said he organized the effort in response to nearly 30 billboards in Louisville purchased by the Summertown, Tenn.-based Peace Roots Alliance that read "Peace is Patriotic." The group also has organized rallies in Washington, D.C., and around the country advocating nonviolence and protesting the conflict with Iraq.
The release said Jackson also is collecting donations for additional billboards in Louisville. Each billboard costs $6,500.
A Louisiville, Ky.-based public relations firm has branched into Music City.
Peritus Public Relations will open its Nashville office on Dec. 1 in the SunTrust building downtown. Leading the office is public relations veteran Alan Hall.
The firm specializes in grass-roots efforts for companies and organizations and got its start as political consulting firm The Commonwealth Group. In 2005, the company switched to public relations and public affairs and now works in a variety of industries, including health care, airlines and the automotive industry and real estate.
Firm President Tim Mulloy says the firm had been eyeing Nashville as an expansion target for the past year.
Creative Alliance Inc., the city's largest advertising agency, has decided to spin off its public relations division and allow it concentrate on growing its public relations and public affairs clients.
The new company, Creative Alliance Public Relations Inc., will be led by division president Jessica Loving, who will add the title of CEO. The new company will be owned by Loving, Creative Alliance Inc. chairman and CEO Debbie Scoppechio, and Creative Alliance President Rick Duffy.
The new public relations agency will move its offices on Friday from the Starks Building at 455 S. Fourth St. to 200 S. Fifth St., where it will share space with a new strategic partner, The Commonwealth Group.
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Among the trendyrestaurants along Frankfort Avenue, in an area that almost certainly will vote heavily for Democrat Sen. Barack Obama in November, sits the de facto national headquarters for the "Nobama" campaign.
Workers there stuff T-shirts, campaign buttons and bumper stickers -- possibly a million free bumper stickers -- into envelopes that will be sent to Republican activists, disaffected Democrats and conservative independents around the country.
It's all the brainchild of Louisville Republican strategist and businessman Ted Jackson, who is trying to counteract any potential groundswell for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee by distributing much of the merchandise for a price -- but up to 1 million "Nobama" bumper stickers for free.
Don't suppose there are any T-Shirt folks out there that would like to donate a few thousand T-Shirts to me? I'd like to fight the John McCain NOBAMA craze sweeping the Republican Party with our own version of the shirt called the YOBAMA...if you're out there, and willing to donate these shirts, I would like to make them available via my blog. Of course, my readers could also just MAKE THEIR OWN! Let's show those NOBAMA Maniacs we can take their game and turn it around on them! Call me crazy, but the thought of 20,000 Democrats at a Campaign Rally chanting their affirmation of YOBAMA should pretty well SQUELCH the NOBAMA folks out of the news and over to the sidelines.
