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Weiland Types up New Website

By caheidelberger on 2013.06.30

The truth is out there... in the typography!

After weeks of public outcry (or maybe just a couple snarky blog posts), the Rick Weiland Senate campaign has finally come to its senses (or just gotten around to item #87 on a lengthy list of campaign projects befitting a candidacy that is not and never has been a mere placeholder) and upgraded from its Tumblr site to a regular website: RickWeiland.com!

RickWeiland.com home page, downloaded 2013.06.30
RickWeiland.com home page, downloaded 2013.06.30

The typewriter font is, of course, an homage to The X-Files, representing Rick Weiland's fight against super-rich corporate interests who operate above the law and public scrutiny. Or maybe the font harks back to McGovern-era mimeograph machines, reminding the party faithful of grassroots hippie ideals (that fits Weiland's use of Woody Guthrie on the stump). Or maybe it refers to Soviet-era samizdat, calling for subversion of a totalitarian state (there's the Tea Party outreach!).

Or maybe that typewriter font is just a placeholder for a more conventional Web typeface that join the campaign later?

Published in South Dakota

caheidelberger

6 Comments

  1. Nick Nemec 2013.06.30

    I can picture an a Weiland ad using this typeface and typewriter sounds pointing out Mike Rounds' crony capitalist connections. Similar to a red hot bulletin coming off the teletype machine back in the day.

  2. Owen Reitzel 2013.06.30

    "I can picture an a Weiland ad using this typeface and typewriter sounds pointing out Mike Rounds' crony capitalist connections. Similar to a red hot bulletin coming off the teletype machine back in the day."

    I agree Nick and also on that ad will be how Rounds is trying to slide to the right with the other Republicans

  3. mike 2013.06.30

    It's a really bad website that is not friendly to the eyes.

    These websites are WAY better and half of them are legislators.

    https://roundsforsenate.com/

    http://kristiforcongress.com/

    http://www.dennisdaugaard.com/

    http://jasonfrerichs.com/

    http://kaiserforhouse.com/

    http://angiebuhl.com/

    http://www.jennahaggar.com/

    http://kristiefiegen.com/

    http://www.nelsonforsd.com/

    http://www.debpeters.com/

    http://www.russellolson.com/

    http://shantelkrebs.com/

    http://martyjackley.com/

    http://danlederman.org/

    Wieland's website is the worst until you get to Gant's:

    http://jasongant.com/

    Owen's idea of a typewriter on a commercial sounds like a clever idea to me.

    I vastly prefer the SDDP website to the SD GOP's.

    http://www.sddp.org/

    http://southdakotagop.com/

  4. Owen Reitzel 2013.06.30

    that was Nick's idea Mike. But thanks

  5. Douglas Wiken 2013.06.30

    I just send Weiland campaign $50, but his position on illegal aliens is nonsense in South Dakota or any place else.

    I don't know why politicians put together such dreadful and dreadfully useless websites. A simple blog would be better than most of them.

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