Over in my mother’s congressional district, the Republican candidate is getting creative:
Republican Van Tran, the upstart challenger to Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.), is betting on voters sniffing out his opponent’s struggles — literally.
Tran is sending out a scratch-and-sniff direct mail piece attacking Sanchez that features a hideous odor emanating from it….On the inside of mailer, the piece says, “Something smells rotten about Loretta. It’s the stench of Washington.” Below that is the scratch and sniff panel.
A GOP source who experienced the Eau de Sanchez put it this way: “It is a horrible odor, like the combination of the five or six worst possible scents you can imagine.”
Of course, keep in mind that this used to be a district represented by A-list loon Bob Dornan, and this seems like exactly the kind of thing he would have done. It’s good to see that north Orange Country Republicans are keeping the flame alive.
