Polish Singer Uses Bikini Photos In Election Campaign
"Beautiful, independent, and competent."
Katarzyna Szczolek, known as singer Sara May in Poland, is campaigning for a seat in the Warsaw district council. It seems she thinks that if sexy sells albums it will get votes. From The Huffington Post:
A Polish singer says she is determined to break out of pop music and into local politics — so much so that she’s taken to distributing scintillating photographs of herself posing in a bikini to ensure her campaign isn’t overlooked.
The Toronto Sun reports that Katarzyna Szczolek, who is better known in Poland by the stage name Sara May, is hoping a series of sizzling campaign images will help her nab a spot on the Warsaw district council as a representative of her native district, Bemowo.
On her official blog, the curvy Szczolek touts herself as “honest, consistent, ambitious, hardworking and independent.” She goes on to note that she “wants to change the world and help…
Opposing Prop 19 With Marijuana Scare Commercials
What’s good about legalizing marijuana? NOTHING.
Opponents of California’s Proposition 19 ballot measure are buying television and radio ad time by the bundle to alert voters to the horrors of marijuana decriminalization. In this commercial punctuated by chilling, chunging jungle drums, we learn that legalizing weed will lead to highways swarming with teens practicing “drugged driving” and the takeover of our land by “marijuana operatives.” Be sure to vote tomorrow.
This Election Season’s Most Bizarre Campaign Ads
As American electoral politics becomes ever more dysfunctional, political television ads grow all the more entertaining. In the year of Christine O’Donnell’s “I am not a witch” and Rand Paul’s “Aqua Buddha,” the Christian Science Monitor counts down ten of the most surreal campaign ads. I love this spot from Alabama agriculture commissioner candidate Dale Peterson, the message of which is, if you try to steal one of his yard signs, he will shoot at you.
First Medical Marijuana Television Ad
Cheech and Chong films showed the recreational use of marijuana, now television ads in California are showing the medicinal aspect. Via ABC News:
New York Ad Depicting 9/11 Attacks Beside Mosque Approved
Where would a religious/racial influenced debate be without advertisement? You know the ad sends a powerful message when you have to sue MTA to get it approved. Is there really an argument against an Islamic temple being close to ground zero when Masjid Manhattan mosque already exists a couple of blocks from the proposed site? From AP News:
New York City’s transit agency has approved a bus advertisement that depicts a plane flying toward the World Trade Center’s towers as they burn along with a rendering of a proposed mosque near ground zero.
The ad was paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, an organization that opposes radical Islamic influence in the United States. The group’s executive director says she doesn’t find the ad offensive.
The group sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to demand it accept the ad, which was approved Monday.
MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz says the agency doesn’t endorse the ad’s views.
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