Obvioulsy paid a vendor to send out mailers for the campaign.... as a cruise supporter, the mailer is horrible and even if somebody thought it would be effective they would be 100% wrong. All it’s going to do is piss people off when I get it.
Let me explain to you how things are created. Somebody puts in a purchase order with either the vendor or a third party (who in turn places order with vendor). Somebody designs them, and somebody decides what they are to say, and somebody puts the layout and words together, then somebody proofs them and approves the layout and wording and they go to press. Nobody calls a “vendor” and says “make me a mailer” which then gets sent out. Because no vendor is going to create something without a PO which says who and how it gets paid for, etc etc. Since these types of mailers cost about $4 (according to MoveOn.org’s previous mailings of this type) you can bet when you are spending that type of money, someone makes the suggestion to do it which is approved by campaign leadership and someone then has the authority to spend that money.