The Battle for America 2010: Something Stinks in California’s 47th Congressional District
California’s most hotly contested House race, the contest between seven-term incumbent Democrat Loretta Sanchez and California Republican Assemblyman Van Tran, remains too close to call. The Orange County race made headlines last month when Congresswoman Sanchez claimed on Spanish-only Univision that “the Vietnamese (were) coming” for her seat. You can read my PJ Media article on the race as well as an interview with Van Tran here.
Now something smells as bad as trash-truck juice on a Death Valley summer day in California’s 47th.
In search of the olfactory offense, I point the reader to a Van Tran mailer masquerading as a fragrance sampler, making its way to the mail boxes of likely voters in Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and Anaheim.
Don’t judge this book by its cover; it’s no ordinary fragrance sampler:
Note that the mailer says: “Open for a Free Sample Fragrance of: Loretta, The Scent of Washington.”
The Loretta fragrance sampler mailer, opened:
Following the command to “scratch here” on the $100 medical mask-donning face of Benjamin Franklin, a constituent is greeted with the pungent odor of trash, garbage, or the just-plain-unidentified-stinky. Designed by former California Republican operative Ryan Clumpner, who now works for Missouri-based Axiom Strategies, the ad strikes a perfect blend between humor and visceral disdain for malodorous Washington corruption.
I can speak for myself to the simple brilliance of the mailer, as this one would have caught my eye and most likely would have evaded the wastebasket fate of dozens of political mailers jamming up my local postal box recently.
Some in the California political chattering class claim a subliminal sexist tone to the mailer, as it depicts a seductive Loretta Sanchez donning a red dress. Assemblyman Van Tran claims such as rubbish, telling Fox News, “Not at all, it basically addresses the corruption, the greed, and the ethics issues she’s facing right now.”
That’s what I’m talkin’ about!
Republicans showing signs of creativity, spirit and a bit of whimsy: It almost gives politics a GOOD name.
I agree, Howard, *almost* being the key. Character and ideas matter the most in politics, the Van Tran gang proved to be a great bunch of people – we just need a couple hundred reps like him in Congress to get this nation’s course corrected….
Hats off to the Van Tran team and lets pray together for the future success of Mr Van Tran’s election. Excellent article and Im with you all the way.
It is actually a clever way to get the message out. Of course, there are those humorless souls who will get their panties in a bunch over this. They will get their noses into the air and sniff. Or sniff, then put their noses into the air. Maybe both.
It WILL draw attention to the race. “Dude, you gotta smell this!” “Ooo… dude, that’s nasty!” And people remember smells.
Anyone swayed this base appeal to animal instinct
should not be allowed to vote.
which base animal instinct are you speaking of…”the Vietnamese are coming” low grade social crap, or someone with the balls to throw it back at her for a change..
Van Tran team is moving in the right direction!!
Liberals have a real problem with someone sending their stuff back to them.
conservatives in particular need to fight back for a change.
Amen, Sally!
I’m voting for Tran. Had enough of Loretta’s nonsense.
Mr. Tran used to live in my neighborhood. Years ago when he ran against Sanchez, he had a big “vote for Tran” sign in his front yard. His house got vandalized for it. As far as I know, nobody vandalized Sanchez’s home or anyone else with a Sanchez sign in their yards.
It’s a pretty quiet, nice neighborhood. There’s been burglaries (rarely) but never vandalism like that before or since as far as I know and I’ve lived here a long time.
It made me wonder about the kind of people who support Sanchez.
Sanchez,
Finally Sanchez she knows nothing about how to create jobs and boost the economy. The past 4 terms, she’s pretty much rode on the tails of other experts and been able to hide behind a pretty good economy. Now she’s exposed for what she is, a Do nothing, unexperienced so called Politician that has no real experience or ideas on how to deal with the serious issues of our District.
I think the one good thing about the current recession is that it exposes these kind of politicians for what they are, WORTHLESS!
I didn’t know who Van Tarn was until earlier this year, when I met him at the Strawberry Festival Parade, then I researched all about Van, Which by the Way, EVERYONE SHOULD DO!!! Before they Vote!! He’s an honest business person that actually knows how to take care of our District.
Please Vote for Van Tran and let’s get our District back on track to where it should be. Loretta can then go play around Washington with her silly friends.
–a subliminal sexist tone to the mailer, as it depicts a seductive Loretta Sanchez donning a red dress.
Is the pix something Photoshopped or is really one of Sanchez trying to look sexy?
Bill, I believe that it is actually a picture of Loretta Sanchez. Axiom (the firm that did the mailer) may have airbrushed the look or altered it a bit.
Thanks Tim. It makes you kind of wonder how she allowed something like that to get out.
Government is just a joke and/or party to the Democrats, I guess.
This is brilliant, and speaks volumes. Sanchez has been shoveling some nasty smelling stuff at Van Tran, and she deserves everything she gets.
Best of luck, Mr. Tran. You’re doing a great job, and know you will be successful.