I have no idea how the Nick Rerras campaign managed to let this piece of mail go out. (This one, by the way, I didn’t get. As best as I can determine, I’ve gotten every other Rerras mail piece.) The errors are just horrendous. (Click to enlarge.)
It’s supposed to be a letter from his wife, Gayle. In the second paragraph, it says “Costas in a freshman at Granby ” instead of is. (Write your own jokes 🙂 ) In the third paragraph it says “Please let me give you a few other important reasons to re-elected Nick.” Re-elected? And in the last paragraph it says “I hope I can count of your vote…”
But perhaps the most glaring error is the identification of the kids in the photos on the right: Nicholas, Helena, Costas and Nicholas? Whoa! What happened to Robert?
If this mail piece is any indication of Nick’s attention to detail, I’d say he’s blown it.
Best thing to do: elect Ralph Northam!
(By the way, this mail piece is large – 12×12 – and therefore, when I scanned it, I had to scan it in pieces since my scanner is only letter-sized. Nevertheless, the only thing I did to this piece was to remove the mailing address on the first page and highlight the errors in yellow. The pen markings you see were on the piece when I got it.)
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
Actually, if the family really did it themselves, it’s not too bad. Considering what they were working with. By the way, it’s “Gayle”, not “Gail”, but I guess we have to blame her parents for that one.
Naw, this is a professionally put together mail piece.
I changed the spelling. See what good proofreaders can find? 😆
The thing I love most about direct mail firms is that most of them can mass produce a slick, glossy mail piece that visually evokes the sort of emotion or response they intend, but most of them couldn’t send you a post card from their family vacation without accidentally writing “wish you we’re hear.”
It reminds me of the old Bob Newhart show. “I’m Larry, and this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl.”
Rerras needs more than a proof reader. How he got into and stayed in office is beyond me.
I used to work for him when we were both in the technical documentation department of now defunct Superior Engineering in Norfolk. That is when Nick was Demitrious, wore glasses and had no rug on top of his head. He was a bear to work for (I think I resigned before I was there six months), grossly incompetent as a manager and a technical writer/editor, and couldn’t lead an angry bull out of a wet paper sack.
If we ever meet in person, I’ll tell you some hilarious stories about those few months with Demetrious.
That could be why he now is self-employed.
Ask the voters of Norfolk why they love him. He has a lot of support. I can’t figure it out either. It makes me want to move to another country.
Didn’t he have a close bout with bankruptcy? I read that somewhere about a year or so ago.
I worked for Nick on his last campaign. He used the campaign fund to take his kids bowling at least three nights a week. We used that moey for everything. In fact, I don’t remember ever paying for a meal between August and mid-Novemeber.
I spent about 15 hours a day working for him and we spent about $430,000 in 2003. I can’t tell you exactly how much of that was spent on non-campaign items, but it was a hell of a lot of money.
SLN – I had heard he wasn’t working at all.
Archie – yes, that was the rumor going around for a while. Would love to hear the stories you have 😉
Dave – I’ll bet he’s not doing that this time. By the way – are you working for him this time?
No. My only involvment in this year’s elections is to vote (against Rerras).
Self employed is a nice way of saying unemployed.
Oh, SLN, you’ll never get small business owners to listen to you talking like that….
PS – Vivian is a self-employed accountant. And Lord knows that especially at tax time, she works like a dog.
There are various degrees of self-employment. Nick’s just doesn’t generate revenue.