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Campaign ad hits theater
posted by
Michael Zoldessy
on
September 29, 2006 at 1:15 pm
TWIN CITIES, MN — Much to the audience’s surprise, a candidate for county sheriff started running a campaign ad in one theater.
Going to the movies is the ultimate form of escapism — or at least it was until Friday.
That was when the curtain came up before the 7:30 showing of “The Illusionist” at the Highland Theater, and where there materialized a leading man so familiar to the St. Paul audience that some in the theater gasped at his sudden appearance on the silver screen.
It was former Police Chief Bill Finney. Seems he’s running for Ramsey County sheriff.
For more on this story, visit The St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Comments (5)
I think it is stupid for a theatre to accept political or religious advertising. They will be prime targets for law suits when the ACLU, Klu Klux Clan, and the American Communist Party come knocking at their door. They will then advertise or be forced to close for being what they really are. One-party fascists.
A new low////
When I go to the movies, I don’t want to see this kind of drek. I always see it on tv, but I don’t want to see it in my theater. If I saw an ad for Lieberman, I’d walk right out without a word.
Spike – i hope you mean any political ad……….
Yeah, any political ad, sorry. One thing I don’t want is reality in my movie theater.