At Down East this week, I share some thoughts on gubernatorial candidates' campaign material and make an offer: anyone candidate for governor or congress who sends me a campaign button gets a write-up on the blog. The same goes for candidates for state legislature or other local offices who send a sticker.

I've had a lot of reaction to the piece so far. Several campaigns are sending over materials and the Poliquin campaign would like it noted that their design has dark blue text, not black.

Al Diamon also points out that John Richardson's design may actually be an attempt to evoke Joe Brennan's logo from his successful 1978 run for governor. Now that I look, it also seems to share some similarities with former Governor Jock McKernan's campaign logo. I don't have a good image of either of these designs, so if anyone has an old Brennan or McKernan button or bumper sticker they can take a photo of, please send me a note.