Back in the day before the social media leviathan invaded the political arena, here’s the way some candidates for governor made their announcement.
The “fly-a-round.” What the hey? The candidate would usually begin the announcement day in front of the TV cameras in Detroit or Lansing and then usher their hopeful staff onto a chartered airplane and “fly around” the state to every other TV media market to make sure that as many voters as possible knew he or she was running for the state’s top job.
That meant at each stop the newly minted office seeker had to take questions from the media which can be a risky proposition but unless you had just gotten out of prison, the chances of a major blunder in front of the cameras on day one were pretty remote. The news hounds truly appreciated the opportunity. Little was it known that these events would disappear.
