2008-06-25 Board of Ethics Minutes Regular Session

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it or if I change my mind and want to put my face on my business card I'd like to see if that's acceptable too —my County card. LUM: Mr. Jacobson. JACOBSON: Yes, go ahead. LUM: Would you use it on all your correspondence or choose whether it was something that you would be doing then or something was more formal or- JACOBSON: -- I'd probably like to put it on all my correspondence because I would like to have a consistent letterhead. At first I thought and I have to admit that I had put a couple out on certificates to the elderly during RSVP —I moved ahead and I put my face on about fifteen of these things before I thought to ask an opinion from you guys so I may be in some violation. 1 hope not, but once I started doing that I realized it's probably a better idea to get an opinion before I proceed along that line. But in general I'd like to have it on all my stuff or at least be able to. I may not always put it on there but I think that generally I'd just like to have one letterhead that's consistent throughout the whole period of time. Things have changed in talking with others. If this was 1960 and I was trying to put my picture on things, that would be more of a big deal. The costs would be a lot more onerous I thinkfor the taxpayers. Right now with our digital technology it's just about as easy to print up a letterhead with a picture of me as not. So it doesn't seem to be a striking amount of business and frankly I agree to the ideas, I don't want to have to put my name, face in an ad. If I'm going to have my face in an advertisement, that's a clear boundary. I mean there's a line there to cross and if I'm going to put my face in an advertisement then I'd pay for it myself. I'm not interested in —no matter what your rulings are it looks bad, it has an appearance of- LUM: --pictures appear political. JACOBSON: Yeah, just irritates. Like I'm campaigning for something, so that aspect I would not —I completely agree with your opinion on this. For this I think it has more of the impact of here is my face if you feel like meeting with me, you're going to see Jacobson at your office. Otherwise, if you want to follow my advice maybe you don't have to see me. But also for people just to be able to identify with who I am. So that's my general idea. I don't want to use this as my campaign vehicle- LUM: -- better not. JACOBSON: I have my own campaign stuff and that's outside my office here for sure. NICHOLSON: I have a question, your regular office stationery that's paid for through your office expenses and there's no standard format for business cards or for campaign stationery? LUM: What campaign? JACOBSON: Let me hand you one of my business cards. 7