December 15, 2005
Kinky Ads on TV
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
I was at Kerbey Lane the other night, chatting with University Democrat's President Alex Hunt, President-Elect Brandon Chicotsky, and Austin consultant Glen Maxey about the District 48 race, state student strategies, and University Democrats, when I saw one of the new Kinky TV ads I had received an e-mail about Monday.
Running in Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Austin and El Paso (what's the price tag on that I'd like to know), they feature Kinky, or rather, his 13-inch action figure responding to Press Questions.
You can watch the 3 ads online here. If you want to catch one of the ads, they will be running on the following programs.
Update: From the comments, a very good point...
I had to do a check to find out that Friedman's campaign manager is former Senator Dean Barkley (IP-MN). When Jesse Ventura ran for Governor in 1998, North Woods Advertising released ads with a Jesse Ventura action figure.
The Ventura ad is here
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I had to do a check to find out that Friedman's campaign manager is former Senator Dean Barkley (IP-MN). When Jesse Ventura ran for Governor in 1998, North Woods Advertising released ads with a Jesse Ventura action figure.
The Ventura ad is here
In Politics, everything old is new again.
As far as a campaign ad, I think it was pretty poor. He seems to be pushing action figures and poking fun at the system more than putting out any policy. I really don't get the strategy.
That doll - excuse me - action figure - still looks more like Bruce Campbell to me.
Kinky, put out policy? He's just following the Rick Perry strategy of governing which doesn't require putting out policy.
Speaking of effective campaign strategies, how did that Prop 2 thing turn out for yall? Maybe if there were more Kerbey Lane campaign meetings with higher-up politicos that you could name drop, things would have been different.
Nonsense aside, it worked for one guy running for governor. I think if you are going to try and discount Kinky, calling him dumb and acting like he's a joke isn't really going to work. You'll wake up in November with a lot of your votes sapped out into his column.
His "policy" seems to be a warning to the legislature that they better be ready to override his vetoes and then explain it to the voters. His policy is not Rick Perry's. Rick Perry could care less about the legislature or the voters.
Kinky for some reason scares the Democrats more than he does the Republicans. Wonder why.
It's not a campaign ad. It looks like a way to raise money for a grassroots campaign. I wouldn't expect them to state policy. Do the parties sell t-shirts with a full platform printed on them?
