This is the script of a political ad that was recently released by conservative Republican Stewart Mills III, who is running against DFL Congressman Rick Nolan in Minnesota’s 8th Congressional District. The ad shows young Stew the third sporting the orange shirt worn by front line employees at the Mills Fleet Farm chain of big box stores that his family operates.
I’m Stuart Mills. My family operates Mills Fleet Farm.
As a teenager, I worked here stocking shelves. (chuckle) Then I got promoted to mopping floors.
Now I run the health care program for thousands of our employees and their families.
Everyday, I see how Obamacare hurts small businesses and the middle class.
As your congressman, I’ll replace it.
I’m Stewart Mills and I approve this message, because we need to grow the middle class and get Minnesota back to work.
If Stew the third were injected with truth serum, the ad might sound more like this:
I’m Stewart Mills the third. My family operates Mills Fleet Farm.
As a teenager, I worked there stocking shelves. (chuckle) Then I said, screw this, daddy, make me a top executive faster than everyone else. And he did.
In other words, I was born on third base, but think I hit a triple.
Now I’m fighting to protect my millions of dollars in inherited wealth.
But every day in Minnesota I see how 350,000 minimum wage workers have gotten a raise, 95,000 have new Medicaid coverage, and 2.3 million with pre-existing conditions have gotten their coverage protected through Obamacare.
As your congressman, I would oppose those things, and offer no alternatives.
I’m Stewart Mills III, and a bunch of other folks with inherited wealth approve of this message, because they want a fellow silver spooner growing the upper class and putting ordinary Minnesotans back in their place.
Note: This post was featured in Politics in Minnesota‘s Best of the Blogs.