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One client had been so mislead by one of these dinosaurs, he asked Jim to keep their consultation a secret. "What would people think if they knew I was consulting a comedy coach?" That took Jim off guard at the time; but now Jim answers: "Your opponents will think so terrified, that they will lose their lunch. |
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April 25, 1997, Jim spoke at the Sonoma County Pachyderm Club at Los Robles Lodge in Santa Rosa, California. Although the examples are slanted to the interests of this GOP audience, Jim would say much the same to any political group or club, only the cast of characters used as examples would vary. In other words, all political candidates have the same writing and performing problems to address. Their success or failure to do so determines whether they win or lose their election. This is a new field for Jim, so some notes to supplement each audio clip may help the reader to better follow Jim's argument:
Dorothy Erickson:
Nice meeting you guys last night.
You can easily fit all this information onto your masthead every week if you print it in small type.
Below please find suggested bullets for your FAX logo, as we discussed:
Sonoma County Pachyderm Club
"PHUN Politics!"
- Global Village: satellite dish, Internet, fax--WE are community!
- This weekly fax: YOUR clearing house for ALL local political events: GOP, Democrat, Reform, Peace & Freedom, Libertarian, Natural Law, etc.
- Meet us at YOUR monthly "Stump Night": ANYONE can speak for 3 minutes!
Then, this footer:Why not photocopy me and snail-mail, e-mail or fax me to your friends today? History of both parties trying to knock off the other one's best speaker, examples:
Need to budget training: Jim's figures here are conservative--he estimates that campaign treasure chests are $125,000-250,000 for House of Representative races, jobs that pay $130,000/year.
- Jim Wright of Texas
- Newt Gingrich of Georgia.
In fact, candidates in these races locally feel they have to raise$1,000,000
if they are running against an incumbent "just to be taken seriously!"Jim can't believe the parties
won't set aside a few thousand
to get their candidates some decent coaching.Dan Stockemer, founder of the Sonoma County Pachyderm Club, thinks it would "really be a service to the candidate" to require him to get coached by Jim.
- Dan advises Jim to present the same pitch he has just given in his speech to the State GOP Chairman, "I think they'd be very receptive."
- Up until 2/12/98, Jim hadn't watched the video tape (you are listening to highlights of the audio) since last year when he gave this 45 minute talk.
Jim forgot Dan had said that.- Oooops!
The Pachyderms catch fire, enthusiastic finish to Jim's talk, much discussion
(audio 447 K ".wave" file, playing time: 1 minute, 52 seconds)
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Q: "Jim, why don't you just write me some jokes, and let it go at that?"
A: A few weeks before the Dukakis/Bush debate referred to above, a political wannabe
from the Dukakis camp called Jim and asked for a few jokes,
admitting: "The way
things are going, we'll try anything."
Jim turned down the gig, advising the
inquiring citizen that one joke or even a string of jokes wouldn't help.
Why?
Simple: Dukakis hadn't respected the process enough to first learn how to sell said
joke/jokes to any audience.
Q: "In recent history, when has humor WON an election?" [Jim answers while continuing his Dukakis rant.]
A: Sure enough, Jim's advice was ignored, Michael Dukakis tried that
fool's errand in his 1988 debate with George Bush.
Bush answered Dukakis' one
joke with, "Oh, is this where we do our one-liners?"
Bush then told 20 jokes in
a row.
When the camera next panned over to Dukakis,
his head was visibly reeling
from 20 psychological blows to the head.
Q: So, who is this Jim Richardson to talk to us politicians like this?
A: Glad you asked.
Jim Richardson has been coaching comics since 1977 (over 42 years) and
his clients have WON every
major comedy contest in the USA, including the Ed McMahon "Star Search"
Further, since 1988, Jim has been working with top business keynote speakers, training them to speak at the
Q: What's this going to cost our campaign?
A: Jim believes in treating all citizens alike. After all, this is America.
Jim can work with folks locally and long distance--even internationally via Internet
video conferencing, etc.: one-on-one, in small groups or Jim can present to large
gatherings.
For one-one-one fees, please refer to:
Q: So, Jim: what are your politics?
A: Jim has coached both Republicans and Democrats in communications skills. But Jim belongs to his own party-of-one: Jim calls himself a "Radical-Aristocratic-Reactionary." Which means Jim is an "Independent," who votes issue-by-issue.
Disillusioned with both major political parties,
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Jim is looking for candidates with integrity:
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To whom it may concern-- |
What do you know?
Dan's multi-level marketing plan worked: Jim gets a personal letter in answer to his e-mail from his very own Representative in the Congress of the United States:
For Jim's critique of her and other Sonoma County political candidate web sites, please click here.
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