Heck, I'll tell them anything you want for 8 bucks an hour (The Next Mayor)

I think I'm on just about every politically-related e-mail list in this city but never before has an email from a campaign offered me money. Usually it's the other way around.

This was at the bottom of the latest Fattah for mayor mailing:

In addition to building a volunteer army to help us here at the Fattah for Mayor campaign, we're also looking to hire reliable and energetic Field Representatives.

Candidates must: be at least eighteen years of age; be highly motivated, energetic, dedicated, and display initiative and reliability; have good oral-communication and listening skills; be capable of taking directions; have good written skills and present a neat appearance; strenuous walking required. Prior customer service experience and experience in electoral politics is a plus. Use of an automobile is not required for these positions.

Successful candidates will be required to go door-to-door, in various areas of Philadelphia to talk with registered voters. Starting pay, with no related experience, is $8.00 per hour.

Talk about your retail politics. I notice that "support the idea of Chaka Fattah being mayor" is not prerequisite. And please, before a hyper-energetic Fattah supporter tries to makes some kind of connection between the title of the post and that previous sentence, don't. The only thing I'm publicly supporting during this election is the process and the only things I'm against are attempts to subvert the process.

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