Ken needs your help! Follow along as Ken shares items from his button collection that are of unknown origin, and help him figure out where those buttons came from.
Last month’s “Who Dat?” feature left a lot to be desired. For some time now, we’ve been offering photos of unknown buttons, arranged alphabetically by candidate names, for you to help identify. But last month focused on candidates whose last name began with an “I” — and there were only a handful to illustrate. We’re …
We know there’s no “I” in team … or, as my son once said during a T-ball game, “There’s no ‘I’ in ‘victory.” Still trying to figure that one out. But as it turns out, there are not many unknown campaign buttons that begin with the letter “I” either. As you know, every so often …
You can’t figure out what Seattle coach Pete Carroll was thinking when he called for that ill-fated pass play during the Super Bowl? How do you think we feel when we can’t figure out who all these local campaign buttons refer to?? As you know, every so often we come across campaign buttons for candidates …
The elections are over. Winners have been congratulated, losers have been consoled. It’s time to relax. WRONG!! There are all these campaign buttons that need identifying. Every so often we come across campaign buttons for candidates we’ve never heard of. How do we identify who they are? And when we see a “Smith for Congress” …
Labor Day is a time to relax and think about all the people who came before us who worked hard for so little money. Sort of like me. And that leads to this feature in Political Junkie. Every so often we come across campaign buttons for candidates we’ve never heard of. How do we identify …
Rewarding as it is to find campaign buttons we’ve long been seeking, it can get frustrating to come across items for candidates we’ve never heard of. How do we identify who they are? And when we see a “Smith for Congress” or a “Jones for Senator” button, well, how do we know which Smith or …
There was a button we used in a recent ScuttleButton puzzle that listed two candidates — “Re-elect Joe & Art/Vote Republican” — candidates whose identity we don’t know. In fact, we often come across buttons whose origins have escaped us. Thus, every now and then we post some of these unknown items, in the hope …
The identities of several more of those “C” unknown campaign buttons have been ascertained (see Feb. 22 PJ). Here’s the latest: (1) Louis Collins, a Republican, was elected lt. gov. of Minnesota in 1920. He got the “little corporal” nickname for his bravery in World War I. (2) Thomas Carmody, a Democrat, was elected …
In using illustrations of campaign buttons to accompany these political postings, we have often come across buttons whose origins have escaped us. Thus, every now and then we’re going to post some of these unknown items, in the hope that you can identify some of them. Here’s another selection of campaign items of candidates whose …
In using illustrations of campaign buttons to accompany these political postings, we have often come across buttons whose origins have escaped us. Thus, every now and then we’re going to post some of these unknown items, in the hope that you can identify some of them. Here’s another selection of campaign items of candidates whose …