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June 06, 2005

Jersey Doesn't Suck - Part 2 "Extreme PR Makeover Needed"

I have been attempting to put together my Jersey manifesto, but time has not been on my side. So i am now going to make it a blog series. I came up with this saying after a need for outside support for jersey. Many think I am from jersey and ask "what exit?". I am actually from upstate NY, near lovely POTOWN. I am leading a grass roots movement of outsiders supporting jersey. jersey sucks is everywhere! Lame-o Jay Leno ranks on the state in monologues, blogs rant about their road trip when they got stuck in traffic in jersey. I am trying to get it to jersey doesn't suck and then the monumental movement to Jersey rocks. For the lifelong jersey resident, i know you get mad that jersey doesn't suck assumes that there is a fair amount of suckiness related to jersey. If you have lived there all your life, you already know it doesn't suck, so chill and i'll send you a t-shirt and help the cause. Just a note, this strange obsession is not just me. My family have been pro-jersey all my life, spending 2+ weeks every year camping in the 25 foot Prowler pulled by a bright yellow former school bus chevy suburban to beachcomber resort in cape may. My sister is coming all the way from Colorado this summer, with friends to hit the jersey shore, eventhough cali is closer.

To start this movement, we really need to understand why some people don't like jersey. People always point to the obvious ones, the smell of the chemical plants, areas directly off the turnpikes, drivers, traffic, the first view when you take nj transit across the river, and of course the old "it's not new york". But i took it a little deeper. Over the past few months I have been simply going to google news and searching "new jersey". Here are a few of the entries I have found and really point to my first recommendation - jersey needs a pr makeover. The first thing they can do is work with google to get new jersey nets off as the top new search.. come on.

1) 80 year old New Jersey Madam arrested! - What? That's sick. Jersey is pro-business, but how come this article made it all the way to the BBC!

2) New Jersey has the purest heroin for the 2nd year in a row! - I read this when I walked by Fox news studios in NYC. Come on this shouldn't hit the ticker. I had to search hard to find that jersey schools are some of the best schools in the nation!

3) Jersey resident guilty of shooting his laser pointer at a plane! Every article associates this guy with jersey. A good pr person could hopefully change jersey resident to "Freaking Moron".

4) Billboards from jersey residents "Welcome to New Jersey: A horrible place to do business." as you go to the Deleware memorial bridge. It has been placed by someone who was rejected for a home depot in jersey due to wetlands. a pr campaign should come to him from the IRS. Jersey is the pro-est of all pro business states. It's overdeveloped to the max and has to draw the line somewhere. However, another win for the jersey haters as they pass through on the turnpike!

Nj makes mistake after mistake in this area, except being pro sopranos. It can't win recently with governor issues. temporary Governor Codey and his wife decided to bring her story of depression forward, however, they brought it forward on the weekend edition of NBC ny4 with an awful report.It was awkward and didn't really get the message across. There had to be a better way and it ended up getting made fun of on the radio and causing yet another bad portrayal of jersey, when Codey challenged the shock jock to put up his dukes like 30's style boxing. get your act together and start promoting some of the awesome things about jersey! things i will speak of in volume 2. keep rocking jersey.. i'll probably be living there soon and will miss your shores this summer as i save for a wedding.. pork rolls rule...

Posted by Patrick at June 6, 2005 06:25 PM

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