It has been pretty quiet here since the elections are over. It was just local elections, but we thought they went all out. Here are some of the ways they try to get the attention of the voters.
This is the election wagon that Moroni had going around town for weeks. He had some pretty music coming from it, but the volume was usually tuned up to "blast". You could hear that thing way before it ever got to your block. There were usually 4 to 6 people in it waving banners. Moroni is a member of the church, in case his name had made you wonder. He was running for mayor of Fortaleza, but he didn't win, dang it.
Mozart was also on the ballot. From this picture, you can't really tell, but this isn't just a banner hung on a wall. Signs like these were painted all over the walls that surround peoples homes. Out in the country some of the houses
along the road were actually painted like billboards for candidates. You would hope that the candidates came back and repainted them after the elections, but I guess we'll find out the next time we're out in the country.
One method we saw often was the plastering of walls with small posters. I think one big one would have been more
Feng Shui but this did have a certain amount of impact.
Vehicles of every kind are used for advertising. Here is a buggy (pronounced boo-gee) with banners flapping in the wind and speakers blaring. He's out getting votes for somebody.
Why have just a bumper sticker when you can get huge stick-
ons like this?
Or how about this?
Check out all the speakers behind the mesh. I think we were lucky this one was just parked. It would have been an ear drum buster for sure.
This may have been the granddaddy of them all though. I think that is a semi full of speakers!
One Sunday on our way home from church we saw this in our rear view mirror. Talk about Bigfoot being scary!
We decided to let him pass us.
We noticed this guy in the lane beside us one day. His Santa hat caught our eye. Then we noticed he had painted numbers and stuff on his car windows like the candidates had. We think he was just making fun of the whole political process and having a good time. It looks like the election process is as
ridiculous here as it is at home.
This is the election wagon that Moroni had going around town for weeks. He had some pretty music coming from it, but the volume was usually tuned up to "blast". You could hear that thing way before it ever got to your block. There were usually 4 to 6 people in it waving banners. Moroni is a member of the church, in case his name had made you wonder. He was running for mayor of Fortaleza, but he didn't win, dang it.
Mozart was also on the ballot. From this picture, you can't really tell, but this isn't just a banner hung on a wall. Signs like these were painted all over the walls that surround peoples homes. Out in the country some of the houses along the road were actually painted like billboards for candidates. You would hope that the candidates came back and repainted them after the elections, but I guess we'll find out the next time we're out in the country.
One method we saw often was the plastering of walls with small posters. I think one big one would have been more Feng Shui but this did have a certain amount of impact.
Vehicles of every kind are used for advertising. Here is a buggy (pronounced boo-gee) with banners flapping in the wind and speakers blaring. He's out getting votes for somebody.
Why have just a bumper sticker when you can get huge stick-ons like this?
Or how about this?
3 comments:
Wow, what a great collection of pictures. I'm glad to see that you are actually taking pictures. Too bad Moroni didn't win...maybe next year.
What a hoot, to see the way they go all out for their candidates!Wish our election was over. Getting pretty sick of it.
I'm glad to see eveyone has opinions in Brazil, too. We hearing opinions every night on TV and on the ad's as well. Good ole election years, heh?
We had a close call yesterday when Sylvia thought that Steve Z. may be for Obahma. Whew, we didn't have to kick him out!
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