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Thread #68747   Message #1867131
Posted By: JohnInKansas
24-Oct-06 - 08:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper
Well we can't avoid politics in the newspapers I suppose.

The Libertarian party candidate for governer in Alabama (that's in the US, for those who need a hint) began her campaign with a slogan:

Vote Nall Y'All

When a weekly newsrag ran a column about her, with comment and picture showing "some cleavage," the columnist did apologize:

"Nall, who designed the campaign art work, said the idea came to her after a weekly newspaper columnist wrote about her campaign one week and then wrote an apology the next week for the paper accompanying his column with a picture of Nall that showed lots of cleavage.

"Nall said she was offended at first that her neckline was being discussed in the newspaper, but then realized that when a campaign budget runs lower than a neckline, "you have to be outrageous to get attention."

"Now her campaign is offering everything from T-shirts to marijuana stash boxes adorned with a photo of her in a dress with a plunging neckline and the words: "More of these boobs."

"Below that are pictures of other candidates for governor — including Republican incumbent Bob Riley and Democratic Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley — along with the words: "And less of these boobs."

The picture she's using on the campaign stuff appears to be This One.

Story at MSNBC

"No matter how far back Nall finishes on Nov. 7, that won't be the last that voters will see of her. She's already making plans to run against Republican Rep. Mike Rogers in Alabama's 3rd Congressional District in 2008.

""I enjoy this," she said."

John