Barry Hess, LP candidate for Governor of Arizona, just pulled in a pretty cool endorsement. Sean Morley, better known as Val Venis to professional wrestling fans, took the time out of his schedule to tell voters why they should vote Libertarian in Arizona's gubernatorial race.
Posted by Stephen Gordon at July 23, 2006 01:42 PM
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Maybe WWE fans will dig this, and it is always nice to have some celebrity power behind LP campaigns, but Morley's grin at the end came off as creepy to these eyes. He had good stuff to say, I'll admit, so perhaps it'll be a "net plus" (no pun intended).
Personally, I'd be more persuaded by a Penn Gillette endorsement. :-)
Regardless, good luck to Mr. Hess, whose own rhetoric was impressive in past LP Presidential nomination debates. I'm looking forward to seeing him show up in some campaign event on C-SPAN. What are the chances that Hess will make it into the official gubernatorial debates?
"Personally, I'd be more persuaded by a Penn Gillette endorsement."
Once he retires from his Vegas gigs, I'd really like to see Penn run on the ticket. His Showtime show (which will go unmentioned for obvious reasons) has opened up more conversations with my friends and family than anything else ever put out there with a libertarian message. Not to mention it drastically opened their minds to the message as well.
I'm not a huge wrestling fan, but I will say this about the wrestlers... they certainly know how to speak a message at you. That really got me excited about the Hess campaign.
While you are there, check out the newscasts and info about the network. I read about it in our local newspaper this morning, as the feed is produced just down the road in Monterey CA. They claim to be a non-partisan deliverer of "just the facts," and their candidate interview series does, as they say, include candidates "of all stripes." So maybe there is something to the "Q" in their name. Judge for yourself.
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Maybe WWE fans will dig this, and it is always nice to have some celebrity power behind LP campaigns, but Morley's grin at the end came off as creepy to these eyes. He had good stuff to say, I'll admit, so perhaps it'll be a "net plus" (no pun intended).
Personally, I'd be more persuaded by a Penn Gillette endorsement. :-)
Regardless, good luck to Mr. Hess, whose own rhetoric was impressive in past LP Presidential nomination debates. I'm looking forward to seeing him show up in some campaign event on C-SPAN. What are the chances that Hess will make it into the official gubernatorial debates?
Posted by: truelibertarian at July 23, 2006 04:17 PM