A couple of Nashville’s candidates for mayor are trotting out campaign jingles. It’s a throwback device not used by a winning mayoral candidate since at least the 1990s.
Attorney Charles Robert Bone’s first TV ad is a takeoff on “Dem Bones,” the song that helps children learn the parts of the skeleton. “Cane Ridge connected to Bordeaux, Donelson connected to Crieve Hall,” the parody goes. “That’s why we’re voting for Bone.”
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According to the Tennessean, Bone plans to spend $1 million putting these ads on TV.
Hedgefund manager David Fox has now released two campaign tunes, including one to the melody of “A Good Man is hard to find.”
“His virtues cannot be ignored, and everybody loved him when he ran the school board,” the song goes.
No jingles are in the pipeline for the five other major candidates, though charter school founder Jeremy Kane is gently slamming the songs. A spokesperson says the race, “seems aimed more toward showcasing gimmicks” instead of “serious conversation.”
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