Mon 25 Feb 2008
That’s right, local TV personality and recent City Club President Rick Dancer may seek the Republican nomination for Oregon Secretary of State. The Register Guard reports:
Willamette Week, a Portland alternative newspaper, reported this week that Dancer’s name was floating around as a possible GOP candidate for secretary of state. Oregon Republican Party spokeswoman Brianne Hyder declined to comment on the report’s veracity.
Dancer, a longtime presence on KEZI-TV, didn’t return three calls to the station. A newsroom employee said questions were to be handled by News Director Gary Darigol, who declined to discuss the possible candidacy.
“Any questions regarding Rick Dancer will be answered this Wednesday at 6:30 by Rick Dancer on KEZI news,” he said.
Gee, I bet the ad price for the 6:30-7pm slot on KEZI skyrocketed (all the way to $25 a minute)!
Really, this is shameless — this had better just be a publicity stunt, because if he announces his candidacy on the air, taking advantage of his position in the media and pumping up the event using his own news program, well.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Update: Rick Dancer “came out” on KEZI on Sunday night — perhaps with the cat out of the bag KEZI and Dancer realized that they could hardly wait until Wednesday and too obviously take advantage of his position on the news to get some free PR.
February 29th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
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As a side note, Rick Dancer took me to see Return of the Jedi when I was 9 years old. We haven’t spoken since.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:35 am
And, as you all have heard by now, Rick Dancer absolutely DID announce his candidacy on KEZI, on the air last Sunday (Feb 24). The news program ran a 3 minute segment on his resignation and candidacy, then did a longer tribute to his years on KEZI.
Sheesh… Maybe Chambers Media doesn’t understand their obligation to the 6 democratic candidates also running — don’t they get a softball interview on KEZI followed by a fluffy tribute?
I’d like to see how they profile Vicki Walker — can’t imagine she’s popular with the conservative Chambers family.