Guidelines for Campaign Managers & Field Workers
Distribution & Display of Political Campaign Literature & Signs: Guidelines for Campaign Managers & Field Workers
To prevent misunderstanding, we suggest the following guidelines be followed during the Road to the White House Mock Presidential Election (MPE).
- All political campaign materials distributed with respect to the Mock Presidential Election MUST have the official “The Road to the White House Starts at Western Illinois University” logo on it.
- MPE campaign managers are free to make their own signs and leaflets promoting their respective candidates, provided they display the aforementioned logo.
- The campaign logo may be downloaded from the Western Illinois University web site. Campaign managers and their designated representatives are encouraged to do so.
- In constructing their own signs and leaflets, MPE campaign managers must be careful to represent the truth about their candidates. For example, it would be unethical to state that Candidate X is “pro-life” when in fact Candidate X is “pro-choice.” Let’s keep this on a high plane by expressing positive aspects of one’s candidates and avoiding the negatives about one’s opponents.
- If the mock campaign managers secure placards, posters, leaflets, and brochures from the actual political campaigns, then those placards, posters, leaflets and brochures should contain the aforementioned Mock Presidential Election logo (“The Road to the White House Starts at Western Illinois University”).
- To accommodate all political camps, we are having DPS print stickers containing the mock logo. Mock campaign managers may then affix the stickers on the donated placards, posters, leaflets, and brochures (preferably on the bottom right hand corner).
- Each campaign manager may designate ONE, and ONLY ONE, person to purchase the logo/stickers at DPS (located on the last building on the right past the WIU baseball field, heading north). There will be 50 stickers to a sheet, and each sheet will cost $1.00. We will NOT pay for the stickers/logos; it is up to each campaign to pay for their own.
- Please submit the name of your designated representative to Julia Remes so that DPS can be informed.
- Actual political campaigns (that is, not those affiliated with the MPE) are free to form their own campus organizations and seek official recognition from the University. For example, Students for Obama, is an officially recognized student organization with a faculty sponsor and by-laws. That group is free to post meeting times on this campus without the necessity of displaying the MPE logo. Please do not remove those flyers. Other students supporting other candidates are also free to organize in this manner.
- In October, we will furnish each MPE campaign manager with equal numbers of poster board and marking pens to make “homemade” signs for the primaries and conventions. Be creative, but be sensitive to others’ feelings. We strongly suggest you display the MPE stickers on each poster just to be on the safe side.
- Please, please be careful where you post your signs. Do not stick them on walls, utility poles, doors, etc. We must also be careful where we can post them in the Union. It is better to ask questions than create a negative image for your campaign.
Rick Hardy, MPE Project Director
John Hemingway, MPE Associate Project Director
Julia Remes, MPE Campus Student Coordinator
