Today I received an email from the man-who-would-be-mayor, Sam Yoon. Take a quick look at it:
Sam Yoon has, as a city councilor, not made much of a name for himself outside of "the first Asian-American on Boston's City Council." This email doesn't add much to my impression of him. For example, this looks like a news update from a concerned city councilor. What gives this away as an election shill piece is the text at the bottom of the email:
Paid for and Authorized by the Committee to Elect Sam Yoon.
(This is not in the picture because of my limited screen shot capabilities. I would link to the "view this email as a web page" except there isn't any such link on this piece.)
Another oversight on this piece is the fact that there is no blurb saying why I am getting this email (so I don't know how he got my name), and there is no option to unsubscribe from this email. I'm not looking forward to getting any more emails from Sam Yoon, and it would be nice to be able to take myself off of his email list.
Needless to say, I'm not voting for Sam Yoon for mayor (and I don't want to give him any traffic, which is why there are no links to his webpage; you can Google him for yourself). I don't know who I'm voting for in the mayoral race yet. But I do know for City Councilor, I'm voting for Andrew Kenneally.