OCTOBER 20, 2008
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Even North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Carl Mumpower, who is so right-wing he did his own extra-judicial crack busts and wants to impeach George W. Bush for being too moderate, thinks this electoral season's negative campaigning is getting out of hand. So he announced he would do no more "sound-bite" advertising and released this statement:
Most commercial advertising is devoted to manipulating voters with small slices of truth flavored with fantasy sprinkles.
To those who suggest who suggest Mumpower's advertising moratorium has less to do with principle and more with the fact that his Democratic opponent has five hundred times the cash he does, I say take your cynicism and fantasy sprinkles elsewhere.
--Eve Fairbanks
6 comments
A new kind of politics.
MUMPOWER politics.
- FWright
October 20, 2008 at 4:51pm
MUMPOWER - it's what allows mimes to detect the sides of boxes and walls when no one else can.
- anonevent
October 20, 2008 at 5:15pm
Mumpowerment: It's just like empowerment, except what you're empowered to do is sit down and shut up.
- rhubarbs
October 20, 2008 at 5:30pm
What district is he running in? I've not even heard of that clown here in Raleigh. Then again, the publican running against the incumbent Dem in Raleigh (David Price) didn't even make his presence known until the last 2-3 weeks. For the longest time I didn't think Price had an opponent.
- tnmats
October 20, 2008 at 5:44pm
11th district, tnmats. Way out west. Redskins QB Heath Shuler's district.
I must say, I'm a little surprised Mumpower has found the opportunity to do crack busts out there. I lived in Waynesville and worked in nearby Clyde for a little while (not much to Clyde except a hospital and a Walmart), and to me that seemed like meth/crank country all the way.
- aeromonas
October 21, 2008 at 7:25am
But aero, you miss the important distinction: crack busts are statistically more likely to lead to the arrest of black offenders. Meth/crank raids will tend to result in the arrest of white offenders.
- rhubarbs
October 21, 2008 at 8:51am