Why not! However, remember that the key is that the contractor needs make his services available to more than one entity. For example, he wears a "sandwich board", on one side Vote for Michael Denny -- the Only True Small Business Advocate, and on the other side two or three ads for small businesses (for example HMM Consulting International, Vintara, and Marcy Berry Business Services).
We might want to chose someone who still has a Social Security card in his/her pocket so that he/she can be legally hired as a contractor, but we need to make sure he/she does not earn more than $600 from any one of our entities to avoid having to file forms 1099. Press releases publicizing the Mayoral candidate's bold action would be in order.
I am willing to pay out of my pocket $10 an hour (top $50) for an ad for my company. Any other takers??
Marcy
My boss would fire me, kill me, burn my body, and then fire the ashes again
if Vintara was ever associated with either side of homelessness politics.
And I don't blame him. Business is business, and having the brand
associated with anything controversial is too dangerous for a tiny company
like ours.
Perhaps the LPSF could be the second entity, and wewantchange.org could be
the third. I wouldn't even recommend that American Wine Distributors buy an
ad.
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My boss would fire me, kill me, burn my body, and then fire the ashes again
if Vintara was ever associated with either side of homelessness politics.
And I don't blame him. Business is business, and having the brand
associated with anything controversial is too dangerous for a tiny company
like ours.
Perhaps the LPSF could be the second entity, and wewantchange.org could be
the third. I wouldn't even recommend that American Wine Distributors buy an
ad.
Yeah - your boss is probably right.
I might do it, though, not because I expect anyone to notice, but just to
keep things legal.
Though I do think that there would be a very good point to be made if the
Denny for Mayor campaign tried to employ the homeless and were told by the
government not to.
~Chris
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