Harvey Keitel was a better Mr Wolf
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1327740052932276229
(Among my best compliments: worked for MI Senate Dems, Was contacted by some Arab-American leaders in Dearborn MI RE tape of racist anti-Arab comments by our senator’s staffer. He was quietly fired, I took over campaign, & we beat a rumored ex-stripper. A boss said I was Mr Wolf]
[Opponent had a history of racist comments about Arabs, they desperately wanted to beat her, but if we were associated w the rumors we’d be sunk. Through intricate net of people we kept the rumors bottled up until shortly before the election, when a guy went off on his own…
…& leafletted a parking lot outside a small n’hood debate w flyers w obscure reference to a strip club. Nobody would have heard about it, but the Repubs did the stupidest thing I’ve ever faced: our opponent called a press conference at which she attacked our senator for…
…spreading false rumors about her, bc, she said, she’d never been a stripper. It was malpractice, & the Repub who orchestrated it was punished with…promotions all the way up to deputy mgr of Romney’s POTUS campaign
In politics good work often punished & incompetence rewarded]
In politics good work often punished & incompetence rewarded]
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