We’ve noted the desperate straits that the Republicans in Texas’ 22nd District find themselves in before. How can they possibly achieve the almost unprecedented feat of winning with a write-in candidate? And one with a hyphenated name at that?
The Los Angeles Times has the answer: song.
At a campaign stop last week, congressional candidate Shelley Sekula-Gibbs asked a group of women who own businesses to vote for her twice in November: once in a special election to fill the unexpired term of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and again in the general election as the Republican write-in candidate running for the full two-year term.
The women, meeting for breakfast in a hotel banquet room, looked up from their scrambled eggs as Sekula-Gibbs launched into a jingle to drive home the point: “Vote twice for Shelley,” she sang to the tune of “Roll Out the Barrel.” “Special and then write her in.”
Hmm… Under most circumstances, I’d say that “Vote twice for Shelley” is an unwise campaign slogan.
