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Bill Hillsman: Minnesota's Most Dangerous Political Player?
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Nov 05, 2008 07:02am |
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| Description | The ad man punched a button on the video player in his Warehouse District office, downtown in Minneapolis. Presently, a blue TV-test pattern appeared on the TV, abruptly replaced by the red, sweating face of Minnesota's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate of 1990--the candidate's onscreen visage the very picture of doleful dissipation, exhausted anxiety. It's all part of a TV commercial you never saw, made late at night on the Wednesday before that year's general election. Then-incumbent Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, seemingly unbeatable mere weeks before, had lately been feeling the heat, had begun attacking his Democratic opponent's wife and daughter in public. The slights felt very personal. After an intense, trying, long-shot campaign in which few had given him a chance, the cheap shots, finally, were too much for Paul Wellstone to bear.
The candidate on the screen speaks: "This is the ad I never thought I would have to make," Wellstone fairly whines before letting loose his list of grievances toward Boschwitz. His voice hitches, his eyes plead, he's quaking, struggling to maintain some kind of composure for the camera in his face, utterly failing. "Rudy Boschwitz will stop at nothing to get elected," the candidate implores. "Don't let him do it." |
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