{"id":3424,"date":"2021-05-21T10:51:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2021-05-21T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T18:00:27","slug":"ne-credit-unions-effort-receives-pollie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"NE Credit Unions Effort Receives Pollie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;1px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;3px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>A political ad utilized in an effort by CUNA, the League, and eight Omaha area credit unions received a national award called a \u201cPollie\u201d given by the American Association of Political Consultants.\u00a0 The Pollie Awards are described as the Oscars for political ads nationwide. The ad featured a couple, Bob and Sue, who received a Paycheck Protection Program loan\/grant from Centris FCU in Omaha that allowed them to keep their small business running during the COVID 19 pandemic shutdown. <a href=\"https:\/\/vo-general.s3.amazonaws.com\/8d8e8e97-d842-4c90-afb5-3f6efbd38f06\/65d62fef-3110-4a5c-8768-f0e97a02186d?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ4PRWO26HAX3IOCA&amp;Expires=1706105793&amp;response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3D%22Credit%20Union%20Nebraska_Dance_Youtube.mp4%22&amp;response-content-type=video%2Fmp4&amp;Signature=5dQlKeh7qy8DR1F4CFIzJdZnoag%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bob and Sue ad<\/a> won the Gold Pollie for Best Digital Ad in a House Race.<\/p>\n<p>The ad was employed to support Congressman Don Bacon in his re-election to the House of Representatives in Nebraska\u2019s 2nd Congressional District.\u00a0 The coordinated effort between CUNA, the League, and the eight participating credit unions directly communicated with over 71,000 credit union members through six separate direct mail, ads on social media platforms, and online ads. This was the first time such an effort was undertaken by Nebraska credit unions. Congressman Bacon won his re-election by 15,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/pollie.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3427 aligncenter size-full\" width=\"417\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;1px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;3px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;] A political ad utilized in an effort by CUNA, the League, and eight Omaha area credit unions received a national award called a \u201cPollie\u201d given by the American Association of Political Consultants.\u00a0 The Pollie Awards are described as the Oscars for political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncultheaffiliate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}