Hans Tanzler makes first TV ad buy in CD 4 race

Tanzler

The first TV ad of the race to replace Ander Crenshaw in Florida’s 4th Congressional District is out; it’s called “Rawhide,” and it’s from Hans Tanzler.

As the title suggests, it has a cowboy movie feel.

It leads off with a Reward poster, with a rustic voiceover spotlighting “some bad guys in Washington,” including Barack ObamaNancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid.

“They’ve put us in debt … weakened our military … left our borders unprotected,” continues the voiceover.

Then, as a shot of Tanzler riding horseback in a field with a rifle on his side plays, the pitch.

“We need a hero. A prosecutor. A business leader and job champion. A reformer who stood up for our farmers. Hans Tanzler.”

At the 16 second mark, Tanzler speaks: “Mr. Obama, you and your gang have made a mess in Washington. And I’ve got one message from We The People: Get out of our town.”

“There is no question that President Obama’s eight years in Washington have left us much weaker as a nation,” said Tanzler in a press release. “This ad focuses on the exploding debt and hollowed-out military that he is leaving behind and highlights the leadership experience that I’ll bring to Congress.”

The ad, we are told, is part of a “sustained ad buy strategy for the duration.”

Notable: the ad’s similarity to an ad run in the Alabama Agricultural Commissioner race in 2010.

Like Shakespeare said —or was it Roy Rogers? — “there’s nothing new under the sun”?

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. He is based in Northeast Florida. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski



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