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In new ad, Bills likens underdog Senate bid to Wellstone's
pioneer press ^ | 8-10-12 | staff

Posted on 08/10/2012 7:29:20 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

Kurt Bills' campaign released an online ad Monday, July 30, that mimics nearly shot for shot the landmark 1990 campaign ad entitled "Fast Paced Paul." That offbeat ad introduced Wellstone, then a virtually unknown college professor, to Minnesota voters. Initially seen as a sure loser, Wellstone upset incumbent Republican Rudy Boschwitz that year. Bills -- a high school economics teacher also largely unknown to state voters -- is encouraging a comparison as he challenges the popular and well-funded Democratic incumbent Amy Klobuchar. The version from Bills, "Quick Kurt," can only be viewed online.

(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: bills; dfl; klobuchar; klubaseal; mn; saint; senate; wellstone
Read the paper's online comments- leftists are enraged saying this is heresy to their Saint Wellstone.
1 posted on 08/10/2012 7:29:24 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
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The version from Bills, “Quick Kurt,” can only be viewed online.
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Does anyone view “online” political ads other than we political junkies who already know for whom we are voting?


2 posted on 08/10/2012 8:01:13 AM PDT by pistolpackinpapa (Why is it that you never see any Obama bumper stickers on cars going to work in the mornings?)
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Just wait; the Wellstone family will come out feigning outrage.


3 posted on 08/10/2012 8:04:30 AM PDT by pistolpackinpapa (Why is it that you never see any Obama bumper stickers on cars going to work in the mornings?)
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maybe Tommy Harkin can come do his Rageboy funeral reinactment.


4 posted on 08/10/2012 8:36:55 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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