posted on April 7, 2004 08:29:52 AM new
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - You might say Ken Hechler would like to see voters streaking to the polls. Hechler's new slogan to get people to register and vote: "Vote Naked!"
The 89-year-old candidate for West Virginia secretary of state made the suggestion in an advertisement in the April 1 edition of Graffiti, a Charleston-based monthly tabloid.
The ad is the last in a series of four in which Hechler, a liberal Democrat who previously served as secretary of state from 1985 to 2001, pokes fun at himself and his campaign.
The first ad, in January, portrayed Hechler on a large motorcycle. In February, the ad featured a photograph of Hechler delivering a 2002 commencement address — in song — to Fairmont State College graduates.
In March it was a picture of Hechler dressed as a SWAT commando and carrying a fly swatter, threatening to swat apathetic people who don't vote.
Hechler, who was a congressman from 1959 to 1977, said Monday he made the ads "to demonstrate that I can speak the language of young people, because too many political consultants tell candidates that kids don't pay any attention to them."
posted on April 7, 2004 08:34:31 AM new
"to demonstrate that I can speak the language of young people, because too many political consultants tell candidates that kids don't pay any attention to them."
Maybe so, but they're laughing AT you, not with you!
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We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing -- Anonymous
posted on April 7, 2004 08:23:52 PM new
If memory serves, there is a waterway in W-VA called "Twelvepole Creek".....
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