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
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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This is full of win. Tony Hawk doing a 900 over something is always good for publicity. Also, it's the fucking batmobile. Yes.
sigged, because it's even funnier as a non-sequitur
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".
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat