It seems like everyday, we’re getting a new bunch of teabagging rethuglican Congressional candidates who are not what the NRCC thought they were.
Last week, we blogged about Richard Iott, who likes to re-enact being a member of the SS.
And now we have Blake Farenthold, who likes duckie pajamas and pole dancers. Well, maybe the woman in the picture isn’t a poll dancer, but she sure looks like one to me (not that I’ve seen any in recent memory).
The picture comes from a pajama party at a local bar in May 2009, and quickly made its way from the source — thecrushgirls.com — to a publication called We The People and from there to the DCCC and Ortiz himself.
Tony Martinez, marketing director for CrushGirls confirms to TPM that the image is not photoshopped (though a larger version includes a man in a bathrobe, and a woman wearing a Santa hat).
According to its website,
TheCrushGirls.com is an online news magazine that has become Corpus Christi’s #1 Source for Entertainment News averaging nearly 16,000 monthly visitors with over 3,000+ subscribers to our weekly email newsletter. The mission of the website (now in its 5th year) is to promote a positive attitude towards Corpus Christi by providing one comprehensive source of information for all the events & activities in the area. In addition, our popular spokespersons, the Crush GirlsTM, are ambassadors to the community and actively contribute as volunteers for nonprofit/charitable activities and events.
Farenthold, like Iott, was considered a contender, one of the NRCC’s candidates in their expanded field of play. Something tells me that they won’t be playing with this rubber ducky for much longer.
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