Three Billboards Outside Rubio Headquarters

by Joe Mandese @mp_joemandese, February 17, 2018

An image of three billboards -- evoking the Oscar nominated film of the same name -- materialized in Florida following the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL.

The ones depicted here in a tweet by activist group @Avaaz, which placed them on the sides of three trucks outside Senator Marco Rubio's headquarters in Miami, read: "Slaughtered In School," "And Still No Gun Control?" and "How Come Marco Rubio?"

The geurrilla media campaign is an homage to Hollywood favorite, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri," which has a storyline about using billboards to draw attention to a crime, shames Rubio, who has been one of the highest recipients of donations from gun lobbyist the National Rifle Association.

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Todd Gaak from Observer, February 22, 2018 at 11:57 a.m.
Something tells me 17-year old high school students didn't pay for this "grassroots" campaign tactic. Kinda pricey for a bakesale or magazine subscription budget, don't you think? Why didn't you report on who paid for this?
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Joe Mandese from MediaPost Inc., February 22, 2018 at 12:23 p.m.

@Todd Gaak: We did. Re-read the story: "The ones depicted here in a tweet by activist group @Avaaz, which placed them on the sides of three trucks..."

To save you time researching it, you can find more about them here:

https://secure.avaaz.org/page/en/about/