The county supervisor election in Maricopa Count, Arizona is finally starting to heat up. Fliers aren’t the only thing Fulton Brock and Ed Hermes are dishing out as their campaigns come to a close. In a campaign mailing, Republican incumbent Fulton is attempting to smear the challenger Hermes by mentioning his record on Halo.
From the mailing:
Skilled player of popular video game Halo. Hermes was quoted in the ASU student newspaper as saying, "I am addicted to Halo and play almost every night."
Hermes should be ashamed of himself. Instead of spending all of his time worrying about supervising counties (or whatever county supervisors do), he’s been sitting at home in his underwear (presumably), drinking Mt. Dew (presumably), trash talking children (presumably), and whining about team kills (probably).
In all seriousness, ripping a guy because he enjoys a videogame is hardly fair game. As I’m sure we can all understand at
Destructoid, playing games is not the equivalent of delinquency. That said, I wonder if he’s any good?
[via GamePolitics -- Thanks, Brian!]
Contest:
7:05 PM on 10.07.2008
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Hang 'em all!!!
If he doesn't act like it's something to be ashamed of, it makes the other guy look like the idiot.
That and allow "Internet Justice" happen to Fulton.
I'm talking about the whole deal; Spaming, calls, Phototshops, etc, etc...
You're all right Brad.
Obviously a person who enjoys a hobby along with millions of other people cannot be allowed to be a county supervisor.
Probably not. I know lots of people who claim to be addicted to Guitar Hero and can't make it out of Easy.
If Hermes did actually say that he plays "every night," I suspect it was an exaggeration, and was meant to appeal to youth voters.
I mean... look at this guy here. He has teh Haloz hater written all over him.
... VOTE HERMES!
He'd have my vote.
UNFIT
McCain was a member of the Keating Five. I would say that means he was quite involved with it.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/06/fact-check-did-mccain-intervene-on-behalf-of-charles-keating/
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http://www.edhermes.com/Donate.html
Also, I found this news about Ed Hermes responding to this crap:
http://www.politickeraz.com/evanbrown/2448/hermes-battles-back-against-brock-hit-piece
http://cpmazrandommusings.blogspot.com/2008/10/hermes-responds-to-desperate-fultons.html