Teddy! Teddy! Teddy!

Tom Lehman TLehman at lor.net
Fri Nov 3 22:36:45 PST 2000


My worthy co-worker John Boy is running a one man campaign here for Democrat US Senate candidate Ted Celeste. Never mind that Ted is down in the polls by 24%---John Boy expects Ted to close the gap by Tuesday.

John Boy discovered Ted at a union political meeting in Cincinati some months ago. And he was so impressed with Ted, that he created one of his cheers. John Boy started chanting, "Teddy!, Teddy! Teddy!, sort of a take-off on the Jerry Springer chant. Ted from what I understand was sort of embarassed. But, it got the crowd going.

Then down in Columbus at another union political meeting John Boy started the Teddy! chant again! This time it really caught on.

Well. Ted finally came up with an issue the other day, a whole five days before the election. It turns out that Ted's Republican opponent has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from oil and gas corporations---while doing nothing about high oil and gas prices. Too bad Ted didn't discover this issue earlier.

Next time Ted runs for political office he should get John Boy on the bus with him.

Tom Lehman



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