December 14th, 2009 
joel 
Press and Tower has received a formal response to the Saturday Night Live skit regarding the PGA Tour sponsorships dilemna. From Matthew Cummings, Director of Marketing Communications for the Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership:
If the opportunity presents itself, we’d be pleased to partner with the letter ‘Q’ and seltzer to sponsor the PGA Tour. We’ll be waiting for Mr. Finchem’s call.
I totally agree that self-effacing humor and accepting this mention on national TV as a backhanded complement is the correct response. Instead of the typical piling on of cities like Youngstown or Toledo, they picked us, which means that Erie is at least on one of their Harvard writers’ minds!
Good form, Matthew!
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Now if we could only get some momentum on KEW…..
KEEP ERIE WEIRD.
I’m doing my part…….how about you?
Lol@ Cap. I wasn’t aware that it took much doing to keep Erie Weird. We’ve got quite enough weirdos, like myself, to do the job.
Hey Dan, I still have my button
Cap’n., I kept my button on a speaker in the control room at 13th & Peach for several years, and look what good THAT did me!
Besides “That Thing You Do”, has Erie ever been portrayed positively in the national media? I’m just wondering.
Just to be clear, lest there be any misunderstanding after reading Gerry Weiss’s piece in the ETN, and to reinforce my commitment to first sources, the e-mail I received from Matthew Cummings at the Chamber came at 10:13 AM Monday. My post about his response hit at 10:36 AM. Matthew’s Wall post Facebook date stamp is 10:37 AM.
Matthew and I had a very nice phone conversation after my post about the state of Erie’s brand and what a great weekend it was for advancing it.