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September 28, 2004
He's just a downhome Nebraskan
I saw a Jeff Fortenberry TV spot for the first time last night. It ran during the KLKN-8 late news and featured Jeff in jeans and the closest thing he could find to a work-shirt being all rural awshucksy with the Richter family. He then handed off a football to a young boy just to make sure people knew he didn't hate football.
That contrasted starkly with the Fort I passed on Normal Blvd. last week driving his nice clean Volvo sedan. At first I wasn't sure it was him, but the expensive Southern televangelist haircut was a dead giveaway.
Fortenberry's in a congressional race in which his only chance of winning is to out farmer the moderate Democratic farmer, Matt Connealy. In the state fair debate earlier this month, whenever Connealy asked Fortenberry a question about his farm policies, Fortenberry always replied "see my pamphlet." Does he know what his farm policies are, or does he think appearing in a few TV ads with real farmers will make it so? Or does he just not want to own up to the fact his primary fundraisers, Hastert, Cheney, et al., are very anti-family farm?
Nebraska farmers are smarter than that, at least when it comes to their livelihoods. I wonder how this ad is playing in Tecumseh, Falls City, Wymore, Lewiston, Auburn, West Point, Scribner or Wayne?
Posted by Half-Cocked at September 28, 2004 09:15 PM