A reminder from your past:

"If campaign signs are any indication, it looks as though Mayor Patrick Hays will win re-election in a landslide."      -- Jeremy Peppas, NLR Times (Oct 3rd)

Yet another reason why the above statement is nothing but trash talk:  the next time you're out driving in Dogtown, make a careful note of exactly where Pat Hays is putting up his campaign signs.  With very few exceptions, the Hays campaign signs are on either vacant lots or on properties owned by J D Ashley Company.

Bubba Lloyd's campaign signs, for the most part, are on residential properties.  In most cases, these are people who requested a sign; the rest are by permission.  Even the few businesses that have Bubba Lloyd signs have them by their request.

Think about it:  if you're relying on a "sign count" as a way of measuring votes, how would the vote go if when you count the number of ballots coming from occupied residences versus the number of ballots coming from VACANT LOTS?

For those of you who live in a cave, and suddenly discovered the Internet:  IAFF Local #35 has endorsed Bubba Lloyd in his campaign to get elected as Mayor of NLR.  I've been asked by quite a few of our loyal public about how the street campaign is going.

As you can see in the photos, we've taken it to the streets with signs.  Based on what our crews are telling us, the response has been  positive; they will occasionally get a "thumb down" from a driver, but they get at least ten times as many thumbs up.  Of course, 70% of the traffic going by the sign spots appears to be ambivelent.

The biggest problem we've had so far with our signs-on-street-corners campaign has been people stopping in traffic to ask for information.  The bulk of these "stoppers" do so to ask about getting a yard sign; close second on these are people who want specific details on Bubba's platform.  The good news is that the mailers for the postal campaign will be in soon; we'll be sure to put some of the pamphlets out to our crews so that they can be passed out to anyone in traffic who wants one.

So far, we're hitting about 4 major intersections each time we go out.  We're going to try to vary the intersections starting next week so that we can get better coverage, and we'll probably start scaling back a little on how often we're out.  Folks, we're just trying to keep it fresh.

The "D2D Campaign" ("D2D" means "door to door") has had one evolution for us (last weekend), and I'm firm that the Police kicked one off the weekend prior to that.  Last weekend, we (along with our Police cousins again... damn, those guys are EVERYWHERE, it seems...) targeted a major "Mayor Hays Stronghold", the Bunker Hill area.  This was particularly a challenge since it was also a Razorback Game weekend.

We set a personal goal to be done by 1100 since gametime was 1130, and we made it... barely.  We hit all of the Bunker Hill area, I'm guessing 250 homes.  Out of these, I estimate that we had face time with probably 30 residents total.  Of these, most of them were uninformed about the upcoming election; we simply made it a point to let them know that Police and Fire backed Bubba, and went on.  If they're actively interested, they'll find out what Bubba stands for.  A lot of the people we talked to were pro-Bubba.  In fact, we wrapped up the day with 15 yard sign requests that I completed that day.  There were probably 5 to 10 face to face contacts that didn't want to hear from us, and at least one of these was vocally "anti-Bubba".  We thanked these folks for the time, apologized for bothering them and went on our way. 

We're not here to change your mind, or tell you how to vote.  We're just here to let you know who we're backing.  Like I said, "the product sells itself". 

Interesting side note: while out delivering signs to the requestees, I've noted the darned things are EVERYWHERE.  The neighborhoods I was in had at least one on each block.  That includes Bunker Hill, Amboy (where I thought Bubba was relatively unknown) and Park Hill.  I'm still trying to decide for myself if Park Hill is still a Hays stronghold, or is it split since Bubba lives there as well?

SPECIAL NOTE: a note of thanx to all the folks ("Civilians") who've signed up with us to help out Bubba in the election, usually by hosting a Lloyd for Mayor sign in their yard.  If anyone else out there wants to get involved, look for the Signup Form on one of the articles below!  Fill out the form, even if all you want to do is drop us a line letting us know you're behind The Bubbanator!

The Bronze Statue for the future Arkansas Fallen Fire Fighters Memorial arrived today.  It was promptly escorted by a parade of fire trucks up Capitol Avenue to a photo reception. 

Local #35's very own 1936 SeaGraves firetruck led the Parade, driven by Cpt J Hooks and Lt J Miller.  Also present from the NLRFD were Engine 9 and Truck 1. 

Here's a photo of the statue itself and our parade truck.  More photos are available in the Photo Gallery of this site.

The NLR FOP is firing the first shot in the public safety union's campaign to elect Bubba Lloyd as Mayor.

Anyone and everyone (and I do mean EVERYONE, civilians too!) who want to pitch in to help need to be at the convenience store at D Street and JFK this Saturday at 0900 in the morning.  Those nice off-duty cops will hook you up with all the Literature and stuff you need to go door to door telling the neighborhood about Bubba!

This is a bit earlier than we were planning, but heck... why not?

Click the link below to fill out a Bubba4Mayor Volunteer form.

Elect Bubba Lloyd 4 Mayor! Volunteer Form

NOTE: this is NOT for Union Members; we'll have a separate form for you to fill out at a later date.