No doubting this. Apparently you need to win an election to become Coroner in New Orleans. This is good news since it has produced the strangest attack ad I’ve seen in ages:
By way of background:
The spot portraying [Dr Frank] Minyard as a Frankensteinian crazy was paid for by Dwight McKenna, MD, a convicted tax evader who’s running against Minyard. It’s airing on local TV in the area. The video highlights a mini-scandal from the 1990s, when Minyard was sued for allegedly removing bone pieces and corneas from the deceased and passing them onto transplant centers without permission. “It’s contemptible,” McKenna said in an interview. Of course, some people are going to find this ad is contemptible, but McKenna defends the spot. “The ad is, we believe, factual,” he said. “It’s fair play. It’s done in a humorous way.
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