We've grown accustomed to political ads featuring toilets.
In 2012, David Leach promised to "flush the S--t out of the Iowa State House," in an ad featuring him eating breakfast out of a toilet shaped cereal bowl. In 2014,Brian Fitzgerald came out of a bathroom stall to share that he likes to flush "advice from political advisers."
Neither of those campaigns won. But the National Republican Senatorial Campaign may have found a better use of the toilet – a place to stick your opponent.
"Flush," from the NRSC, is shot from inside the toilet bowl. As the water swirls around a picture of Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Ted Strickland, a narrator slams his record as governor: "Under Gov. Ted Strickland, Ohio lost 350,000 jobs. What did Strickland do about it? He took money meant for job creation, gave it to a company that outsourced jobs instead."
This is a reference to the Parago incident: Ohio gave the Texas-based company a contract to administer an appliance rebate program, and the company used an El Salvadorian call center without informing the Strickland administration. Strickland then issued a ban against state contractors using foreign workers.
The narrator also charges Strickland with "draining the rainy day fund" as the toilet is flushed again. The final kicker is also toilet-themed: "While Strickland proposed cuts for services for children, he wasted over 250,000 dollars remodeling his bathrooms at the governor's mansion."
In fact, the new bathrooms were for a carriage house used by tourists, to cut down on wait times. And the funding request pre-dated the Strickland administration.
Facts aside, the NRSC is on to something. If you're going to put a toilet in your ads, put it next to your opponent, not yourself.
In 2012, David Leach promised to "flush the S--t out of the Iowa State House," in an ad featuring him eating breakfast out of a toilet shaped cereal bowl. In 2014,Brian Fitzgerald came out of a bathroom stall to share that he likes to flush "advice from political advisers."
Neither of those campaigns won. But the National Republican Senatorial Campaign may have found a better use of the toilet – a place to stick your opponent.
"Flush," from the NRSC, is shot from inside the toilet bowl. As the water swirls around a picture of Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Ted Strickland, a narrator slams his record as governor: "Under Gov. Ted Strickland, Ohio lost 350,000 jobs. What did Strickland do about it? He took money meant for job creation, gave it to a company that outsourced jobs instead."
This is a reference to the Parago incident: Ohio gave the Texas-based company a contract to administer an appliance rebate program, and the company used an El Salvadorian call center without informing the Strickland administration. Strickland then issued a ban against state contractors using foreign workers.
The narrator also charges Strickland with "draining the rainy day fund" as the toilet is flushed again. The final kicker is also toilet-themed: "While Strickland proposed cuts for services for children, he wasted over 250,000 dollars remodeling his bathrooms at the governor's mansion."
In fact, the new bathrooms were for a carriage house used by tourists, to cut down on wait times. And the funding request pre-dated the Strickland administration.
Facts aside, the NRSC is on to something. If you're going to put a toilet in your ads, put it next to your opponent, not yourself.