“Pants Up, Don’t Loot”
by digby
There’s always someone who can’t help but give the game away. Like the fine fellow who raised the money to buy a billboard in Ferguson that says “Pants up, Don’t loot”. He evidently thinks he’s very clever.
This crowdfunding campaign is for the purchase of a billboard in the Ferguson, MO area. The billboard will display black text on a white background with the text “#PantsUPDontLoot”. After some initial confusion we are working with other, undisclosed companies in the area that are willing to create and display this image. The funds collected from this campaign will be used to purchase this billboard for as long as possible. Lamar originally quoted us ~$2,500 for 1 month but others have come in under that amount. Whatever funds we receive will go directly to keeping the billboard campaign up as long as possible. If we come to an agreement with a company and can fund it for 3 months, 5 months, 7 months…, we will.
I know from experience that billboard companies will often refuse to run political messages. Blue America has been shut out of quite a few places because they don’t want to be controversial or the owners are conservative. It will be interesting to see if the Ferguson billboard companie agree to run this.
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