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The Ohio Senate race looks to be interesting. Current Lt. Governor Lee Fisher is running against former Bush OMB Chief Rob Portman for the vacant seat being vacated by Voinovich. Republicans have hit on Lee Fisher for a shirtless video made by Lee Fisher last year (the commercial has been taken down for copyright reasons and can no longer be viewed). Here is the original video:
Lesson for other politicians – don’t do this. Anyway, the Fisher campaign has hit back with an amusing video, “Rob Portman Took the Shirt Off My Back.”
I love that Fisher was able to make fun and turn the controversy around on Portman. Please, though Ohio, no more shirtless videos!
Today, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered the undergraduate commencement address at Atlanta’s Emory University. At one point in his speech, Schwarzenegger took a swipe at Arizona’s newly passed radical immigration law, joking that he was planning to speak in Arizona, but with his “funny accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me“:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joked that he was afraid of being deported in Arizona during a commencement speech he delivered Monday at Emory University in Atlanta.
Schwarzenegger’s office provided a copy of his prepared remarks and confirmed he made the Arizona joke. “I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend,” Schwarzenegger said. “But with my accent I was afraid they would try to deport me.”
Remember when Republicans talked about changing the law so Schwarzenegger could run for president? Good times.