Feinstein & Fresno!

jdog · #1 (**permalink**) 11-12-2007, 02:44 PM

Toyota pulls anti-Fresno Prius ad after Sen. Feinstein complains

Monday, November 12, 2007

(11-12) 13:33 PST Fresno, Calif. (AP) --

Toyota Motor Corporation has pulled an ad that likened Fresno to an outdated pit stop after Sen. Dianne Feinstein wrote the car company to complain.

The commercial depicts people driving the fuel-efficient Prius in an imagined future in which "gas stations will become nothing more than low-budget tourist stops. Like ghost towns ... or Fresno."

That slap got no mileage with Mayor Alan Autry, who asked Feinstein to intervene. Friday, Toyota officials recalled the spot produced for auto dealers in the Southeast U.S., and edited out any mention of the word Fresno.

Officials in the San Joaquin Valley's largest city say Fresno may not have a beach or a bay, but it's the best place in the state to raise a family.

Looks like Fresno has a friend! Feinstein!

Good luck, you guys!

jdog

dave from mesa · #2 (**permalink**) 11-12-2007, 03:10 PM

With friends like that who needs enemies.

Do agree that it was a slap in the face of Fresno.

J. T. Toad · #3 (**permalink**) 11-12-2007, 08:40 PM

I wish they wouldn't have pulled the ad.

Maybe the influx of the big-city types would move back.

Jamo · #4 (**permalink**) 11-12-2007, 10:23 PM

Phuk Priuses...

Ron61 · #5 (**permalink**) 11-13-2007, 02:24 AM

Although it has changed much since I lived there, Fresno is a nice place to live except for the heat, humidity, cold, and wind at times. And there are a lot of nice places to go that aren't to far away. Wonder who told Feinstein that.

Ron

J. T. Toad · #6 (**permalink**) 11-13-2007, 07:21 AM

Ron,
No it isn't. Fresno is a horrible place. Fresno has always been the butt of jokes from the entertainment industry.

Consider this,
Watch episodes of CSI, Rockford files, etc. I think there was a comment in the old Dukes of Hazard even; Even Carol Burnett made a miserable TV movie called Fresno.

ESPN and the BCS (not this year, but others)(I should say many outcast schools suffer this one)

The general opinion of anyone from CA (bay area and so-cal, as there is no one else on this planet except them How many times have 'they' asked me - "why do you live there?")

The political forces of fairness (there is hardly a political decision which benefits the Central Valley compensatory to the benefit of the populous) water rights, air standards, my favorite was the insurance industry, when the other areas found out we paid lower insurance rates they passed a bill which 'equalized' the rates - what happened? our rates increased to match those of higher rates areas. The quintessential example.

Seriously, if the central valley had their choice (based on voting results), people like Feinstein, Boxer, Chief Justice Rose Bird, Gray Davis, Clinton, etc. would have never happened.

The armpit of California is just that, so please, everyone, pack your bags, your big town ideals, your driving habits, and leave, and quit telling your friends about this place so no one else will come.

This is just one more punch of jealousness, bring it. As there is always truth behind every joke.

Jamo · #7 (**permalink**) 11-13-2007, 08:49 AM

Yup...we're even trying to tell Trump to go home. Basturds.

Excaliber · #8 (**permalink**) 11-13-2007, 09:01 AM

Rumor has it they don't even have cable in Fresno.

Ron61 · #9 (**permalink**) 11-13-2007, 09:19 AM

J.T.,

Did you ever consider that Fresno may be the butt of their jokes because they are jealous. I enjoyed it when I lived down there except for the Summers between semesters when I had to work in the fruit orchards. The peaches gave me such a rash they had to take me to a doctor and then I was put on as a tractor driver. I liked peaches until then, but to this day I can't hardly stand to eat one. Do they still have all of the fruit processing places in Sanger I think it was where we hauled most of the fruit? I loved spending the day at the Fresno Zoo. I have got to get back down there one of these days and see if I can still find my way around to any of the places. As for the rest, believe me Northern Calif. is the same. They won't even bother to come up here to campaign. And they were going to change our car insurance rates to the same as Los angles and the Bay Area as there is high theft rates there, but something happened and they never did that. You have it made living there. Enjoy it.

Ron