From my e-mail, it looks like Paula Hawks is getting around to announcing what we have been chronicling for a while, as she’s been stumbling around trying to figure out how to make a splash:
From: “Paula Hawks” <[email protected]>
Date: August 3, 2015 at 9:55:46 AM CDT
To:
Subject: I’m running for U.S. House!
Reply-To: [email protected]Friend,
I am running to represent South Dakota in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Take a moment and watch our first video to hear why I am getting into this race.South Dakota needs a Representative who will work for them each and everyday in Washington. A representative who fights for the interests of everyday citizens.
We have a way of life worth fighting for here in South Dakota, but the fight won’t be easy. But when machinery was broken on our family farm, my dad taught me that it was worth trying to fix before scrapping it all together. It’s time to restore real opportunity in America – it’s time to make government work all of us, not just for some of us.
Please join me to bring opportunity and fairness to the middle class.
Paula Hawks
And that’s it. Really?
I think that could actually count as being worse than Corinna Robinson’s announcement.
An e-mail sent around to sort-of supporters is her big splash? Even the Dem Blogs aren’t trumpeting this out there. They had more fanfare for Rick Weiland’s more interesting brother when he was talking about taking on Stephanie Herseth.
Talk about a non-event. I especially like the blank web site home page that visitors are now greeted with, with a blank twitter feed:
How could anyone resist an empty page? Better get ready to hold the rushing crowds back….
**Update**– As they finally get around to it after being out there a week, the dems blogs are starting to poke at her boring, somnambulistic announcement:
Now, if Hawks wants people to listen to that message, let’s have a minor musical critique: the background music in this video sounds more like Erik Satie or a lullaby than campaign launch. Call it style, but I need a little more thunder in my campaign openings. Democrats won’t win back Congress playing lullabies.
And a thought for the media. If you do get around to waking up after watching her video, why not take her off-script, and ask what this “favorite pro-choice candidate of NARAL’s” thinks about the effort in Washington to de-fund planned parenthood?
No one but a fool announces in August.