Word Cloud Shows Campaign Ad Rhetoric
Today The Texas Tribune published an interactive treemap comparing the political campaign advertisements we’ve covered on the Ads Infinitum blog from the November 2009 primaries to the present. By categorizing the advertisements in the treemap, readers can compare the strategies of the campaigns, but they can’t actually see the words in the advertisements.
Since you probably don’t have time to look through 70-some transcripts, we converted them into word clouds to help visualize the rhetoric of each political party. The word clouds compare the 100 most-used words by Republicans (in red) to the 100 most-used words by ...

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Jonathan Gal via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The State of Texas levied my private company's bank accounts over $2,000 for unlawful tax charges that were NOT due to the State.
How did they get my company's bank account numbers? By what authority were they able to do this??? They just went into my accounts and took the money without my consent, or even notification, let alone a chance to explain why these taxes are not due.
I suspect this is payback for speaking out against Rick Perry.