Overbey Doesn’t Appreciate Comparisons To Joe Goebbels Or Joe Pesci
Posted on August 4, 2008 at 4:51 pmTommy: No more shines, Billy.
Billy: What?
Tommy: I said, no more shines. Maybe you didn’t hear about it, you’ve been away a long time. They didn’t go up there and tell you. I don’t shine shoes anymore.
Billy: Relax, will ya? Ya flip right out, what’s got into you? I’m breaking your balls a little bit, that’s all. I’m only kidding with ya…
Tommy: Sometimes you don’t sound like you’re kidding, you know, there’s a lotta people around…
Billy: I’m only kidding with you, we’re having a party, I just came home and I haven’t seen you in a long time and I’m breaking your balls, and you’re getting [expletive deleted] fresh. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you.
Tommy: I’m sorry too. It’s okay. No problem.
Billy: Okay, salud.
Billy: [takes a drink] Now go home and get your [expletive deleted] shinebox.
Rep. Doug Overbey, in a rough and tumble battle with incumbent Senator Raymond Finney for the 8th District State Senate GOP primary, has had just about enough of his opponent’s tactics including an ad that ran by this story in yesterday’s Daily Times comparing Overbey to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels:
“Sadly, Ray Finney appears to be losing his composure and resorting to his unfortunate tendency to get nasty with his opponents,” said Doug Overbey. “Those of us who work with Finney at the Capitol have seen this side of him, but now it is occurring for everyone to see.”
“Perhaps the most insulting and odd thing about Finney’s behavior is that he is doing all this while – at exactly the same time – saying he is a ‘gentleman’ who will not use the very tactics he is using almost every day against me,” said Overbey.Overbey pointed out that in the very same edition of The Daily Times that had the Nazi ad, a front page story had a quote from Ray Finney in which he said, “I have tried to be a gentleman in this race.” (The Daily Times, August 3, 2008)
Overbey also noted that Finney has repeatedly tried to make Overbey “look like the bad guy” by claiming Overbey is running a similarly negative campaign.“Ray Finney is desperately trying to draw a moral equivalency between our campaigns,” said Overbey. “I flatly reject that, because I have never called anyone a cancer, Nazi or shoe shine boy in public – and I never will.”
See the ads here.
