When Peter Foy ran for county supervisor he chose businessman/farmer for his ballot designation, even though his primary source of income and his main experiences were running an insurance firm. That's why I dubbed him Farmer Foy. The exaggerations candidates are willing to make to come up with a powerful ballot designation continues to amaze me.
Because of that I asked a friend Brian Mack to create a photoshop of Peter Foy as Farmer Foy.
Now, I am again putting out a call for a photoshop from a reader. You will be given credit and a link back to your website.
This time I need Peter Foy photoshopped as a communist leader. Choices include Stalin, Mao, Fidel Castro, Marx, or any other easily recognizable communist figure.I will explain why later.
If I get a photoshop by Sunday night I will post a picture of myself photoshopped as Vladimir Lenin.
Here is a recent photo submitted from a reader:
Mike Gibson, frequent antagonist of many around here, has said he is running for cuty council in Ventura in Walmart.
If you want to take credit for it leave a comment.
Hilarious! Kudos to whoever came up with this one. My family and I got a big laugh out of it.
Just to clarify though, I'm not so much a fan of Wal-Mart as I am of free enterprise. I think that businesses, whoever they may be, ought to be able to succeed and fail on their own merits, without undue interference by government.
The City of Ventura's recently adopted Victoria Corridor Development Plan places far too many restrictions on business growth and development along the main corridor of town, not just for Wal-Mart or other large retailers, but for small businesses as well.
The real effect of this plan will be to limit economic growth in our town, which I believe we should not be doing during these times of shrinking tax resources and increased demand for services.
Brian:
The visual imagery of Peter Foy as a Communist Party leader frightens me more than any other possibility, strictly from the standpoint of asymmetric photo morphology..
However, if you or one of your bloggers are determined to do so, than at least chose a Communist like former Ukrainian SSR First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, who like Foy was a gentlemen farmer, but of the collectivist, Kolkhoz-type..
Finally, since you opened this political, photo shopping Pandora's Box, in the interest of good-natured, bi-partisan symmetric humor, here's a counter-suggestion for your consideration.
Given the fact that Comrade David Atkins' organization, California Courage Campaign, following the lead of the California Republican Party's State Convention, have chosen to oppose all of the State Budget Ballot Propositions on the May 19th Special Election, how about photo shopping a photo of David Atkins as Mike Osborn, or better yet, as Tony Strickland??
After all Brian, as a fair man, you clearly understand the visceral logic of "...What's good for the Republican goose should be good for the Democratic gander.. Agree??
You know what they say, Brian, "..Politics makes strange bedfellows..."
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