Failed Alabama Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim James made national news with series of goofy campaign ads, most notably a commercial in which he suggested that providing the driving tests in multiple languages was serious fiscal burden on the state and gravely intoned, "this is Alabama, we speak English," as part of his doomed campaign for Governor.
Sadly, New York Republican tea-bagger Greg Ball is mimicking the demagogic style of someone who proved to be too conservative for Alabama Republican primary voters as part of his all to active campaign to become the next State Senator for New York's 40th Senate District, just north of New York City in the Hudson Valley. A friend and resident of the 40th district recently wrote me that, "Assemblyman Ball has just released a new TV Ad where he gives Jesse Helms a run for his money when it comes to subliminal racist messaging in television advertising. Assemblyman Ball starts off the ad by driving to a day laborer station in Brewster where there are day laborers hanging around his car while he talks about 'Illegal Criminal Immigration'."
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