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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Now THAT’S a campaign commercial
It’s nothing new for a political candidate to compare himself to Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and other notable statesmen. But in what may be a political first, Indian-American Ohio Attorney General candidate Subodh Chandra, running in the May 2 Democrat primary against state Sen. Mark Dann, is comparing himself to Apu from The Simpsons.
That’s right. Check out this link: http://www.plunderbund.com/?p=545 and click on the second entry. It’s a political ad, where Chandra compares himself to that famed Simpson’s character (one works at Kwik-E-Mart, the other worked as a federal prosecutor and Cleveland Law Director, one has octuplets, the other has triplets, one occasionally claims he does not speak English, the other speaks English just fine, thank you.)
The political part comes in Chandra’s unfavorable comparison of Dann to Homer Simpson, comparing Homer’s being reprimanded by Mr. Burns to Dann’s being reprimanded by the Ohio Supreme Court for poorly representing a client, among other things.
“Separated by qualifications,” the ad concludes.
As a bonus, the link sends readers to a puppet show put on by Chandra attacking Ohio Gov. Bob Taft. Fun for the whole family?
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Not the spawn of famed columnist…
A description of Ohio Third District congressional candidate Stephanie Studebaker in a Clinton County Democratic publication raised a few eyebrows among Democratic wags when it claimed that Studebaker’s father was famed columnist Jimmy Breslin of Newsday.
Not so, insists Studebaker spokesman Jerid Kurtz, who says Studebaker’s father is the deceased Jimmy Breslin who worked at a small Centerville, Ohio sports gear store – NOT the columnist.
“No major journalists in the family,” Kurtz said. “We’ve actually told Clinton County, and others, several times that it’s not the same Breslin; but people keep getting it wrong,” he said.
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In the “Making Lemonades out of Lemons” department
Ohio Democrat Charlie Wilson, a state senator running in Rep. Ted Strickland’s open congressional seat, fell short of the 50 necessary valid signatures to get on the May 2 primary ballot, much to the chagrin of the DCCC, which had touted him as the man to beat for Strickland’s old seat. Strickland is running for governor.
So Wilson decided to try to win the primary as a write-in, and he’s gotten the support of the DCCC in that bid.
Wednesday, the committee began radio ads with a catchy jingle, hoping that the gift of song will help Democratic voters remember to write Wilson’s name when they go to the ballot boxes in a few weeks. Here are the lyrics to the radio ad:
“The second of May, is election day Charlie Wilson wants to be our Congressman But a technicality is keeping Charlie off the ballot So now we’re going to have to write him in
Ted Strickland, is backing Charlie Wilson He’s the Democrat we need up in D.C. So Ted’s askin’, you to write Charlie in Cause Charlie Wilson will stand up for you and me
Republicans attacking left and right But Charlie won’t back down from a fight
George Bush will feel the pain when you write in Charlie’s name Charlie Wilson will fight for you and me”
A DCCC-sponsored TV ad, meanwhile, also touts the fact that Strickland supports Wilson.
Wilson faces John S. Luchansky of Poland and Bob Carr of Wellsville in the May primary.
Carr said many Democrats have lost faith in Wilson because of his petition fumbles.
“They’re backing a horse that can’t win in the general election,” he said. “If (Wilson) wins the primary, there will be a Republican in this district.”
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