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  • Do you feel like you have to sell a kidney to pay property taxes?

    10/22/2008 9:40:48 AM PDT · by summernot · 12 replies · 530+ views
    It is simultaneously the worst political ad I’ve ever seen and the best. So I guess that makes it so bad it’s good. And it’s not exactly funny, though it is humorous. I’m talking about a 30-second television ad from Don Zimmerman, Republican candidate for Travis County tax assessor-collector. In the ad, titled “Kidneys for Taxes,” the camera quickly pans foot to head on a man (Zimmerman?) sitting in a bathtub filled with ice. A line of blood runs from the man’s midsection to the tub’s edge, where it trickles onto the floor. The voiceover — vaguely similar to the...