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Help me manage public funds.

BoxingchampBoxingchamp Registered User new member
edited August 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
Greetings, folks,

After a long, hard road, I have recently achieved a position of public authority over a moderately-sized region with a substantial reserve of valuable mineral interests, located in the southwesterly parts of the United States. I have at my behest a relatively unpopular county legislative body, who are interested in granting my more independent projects substantial portions of the budget so I do not push for certain "undesirable" reforms (read: I am being offered public money to allocate in exchange for not making a big deal about the obvious council/industry ties here during my first term, allowing me to move ahead one part of my platform agenda for the price of holding off the other part).

The agenda I plan to advance is to market and publicize my region to encourage new service businesses and residents to move in, because - well - we live in a desert, and it's agreed that the tax base needs widening. However, I am not particularly interested in spending my newfound assets on mass-mailing or planting posters. Ideally, this money (something probably just below forty thousand dollars for the half-year) will be spent on doing the most amusing PR stunts I can come up with, that will A) be fun for me, and B) also beneficial for local folks. With a little effort I'm sure I can pull one or two B-list celebrities or throw some decent parties, but I'd like better ideas than that. That's where y'all come in.

This is not bribery, grift, etc; this is politics, and I merely plan to personally enjoy whatever rich ideas might be sprung from ye anonymous well. Any recommendations?

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  • the cheatthe cheat Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    what the hell? you're a mayor or what? i dunno, get adam west to cruise around town in the old batmobile. get tony hawk to bust a 900 over city hall. get a huge snow machine and cover downtown in snow. shoot yourself out of a cannon.

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  • CrashtardCrashtard Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    the cheat wrote: »
    i dunno, get adam west to cruise around town in the old batmobile. get tony hawk to bust a 900 over city hall.

    This is full of win. Tony Hawk doing a 900 over something is always good for publicity. Also, it's the fucking batmobile. Yes.

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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    the cheat wrote: »
    what the hell? you're a mayor or what? i dunno, get adam west to cruise around town in the old batmobile. get tony hawk to bust a 900 over city hall. get a huge snow machine and cover downtown in snow. shoot yourself out of a cannon.

    sigged, because it's even funnier as a non-sequitur :D

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  • wasted pixelswasted pixels Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    This is not bribery, grift, etc; this is politics, and I merely plan to personally enjoy whatever rich ideas might be sprung from ye anonymous well. Any recommendations?

    See, here's the thing. For that kind of money, you could get an obscenely slick website done, and push a small viral video campaign or something that could actually raise interest in your area without being gimmicky or desperate. I've done similar campaigns in the past, and I promise you any creative firm would have a blast with a brief starting, "so we need to convince people the desert is awesome".

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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    reminds me of this.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I would definitely pursue the services of a good creative firm, rather than trying to put some half-baked thing together yourself.

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