Mark Kennedy: Lousy Legislator, Lousy Dad
Mark Kennedy is the Republican candidate for the open Senate seat from Minnesota. After being hand-picked by the White House, he's run a remarkably bad campaign. Mark Kennedy's last campaign ad said there were too many lawyers in the Senate, and the Senate needed more regular guys like farmers and...CPAs?!?!? The idea of the ad was that the Senate will show more fiscal restraint with an accountant in it. Why, Mark Kennedy has been in the US House for six years, and look how restrained spending has been since he arrived there. And we all know what a reputation accountants have for probity in recent years. Remember Arthur Anderson? And accountants did such wonders for the investors at Enron, Tyco, et al. Naturally, the ad went over like a lead balloon.
The latest ad on the part of Mark Kennedy has his daughter reasonably point out that gas and inflation has cut into the buying power of her allowance. Mark Kennedy's response: No raise in the allowance.
Yes, that's right: Mark Kennedy's new message in running for the Senate is that he's a cheap Dad. Mark Kennedy was down by eighteen percent in the last campaign poll. Maybe the revelation that while he blew money like he was MC Hammer as a US Representative, he's cheap as a Dad, will help him bounce back in the polls.
But I don't think so.
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