'Banking executive' Hill. The banjo music is a nice touch.
Ah, campaign season. It's not Scott Brown's pickup truck, but it's
something.
Republican banking executive and House candidate French Hill wants Arkansas' 2nd District voters to know that he'll be fiscally conservative in Washington because he already drives "Old Blue," a dusty 1998 Volvo, and "watches every penny."
Hill's campaign has relaunched an ad it first ran during the primary that touts the candidate's penny-pinching ways and highlights Old Blue. It fails to mention, however, that Hill and his wife also owned a 2005 BMW, a 2007 Mercedes-Benz and a 2013 Ford, as of April of this year, according to county tax records. [...]
Hill's campaign insisted in an email to The Huffington Post that he drives the Volvo rather than the Mercedes or BMW.
I guess your Average Joe credentials do take a ding when you don't mention the BMW and Mercedes sitting just offscreen, but I don't know that you can claim to be fiscally conservative based on your inexpensive car when you've in fact bought three others. Maybe you need four when you're a "banking executive," because of all that banking.
Eh, what do I know. I hear poor people have refrigerators these days; the world's all topsy-turvy. But I do think we should get "Old Blue" and Scott Brown's pickup—what did he call it? Ol' Carpetbagger?—in a commercial together, because c'mon. It'd be great.