I have never seen tiny type used to make asides in a news release before, but obviously Harold Cook is on something ... I mean, on to something.
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January 11, 2010 (512) XXX-XXXX
In Stunning Move, Land Commissioner Candidate Hector Uribe Already up on Statewide TV
(Austin) Democratic candidate for Texas Land Commissioner Hector Uribe announced today that he's already on TV state-wide, when the USA cable network aired "No Country For Old Men" on January 6, and twice during their programming yesterday. Uribe had a speaking role in the film, which garnered four Academy Awards...for other actors. Uribe, for his part, managed to become one of only a few actors in the film to achieve the vaulted status of not being violently murdered by the end of it.
This surprise move makes Uribe the first candidate for Land Commissioner to be up on TV state-wide this election season.
"This is the kind of publicity that makes people. Things are going to start happening to me now," said Uribe,
shamelessly pilfering a line from another movie, "The Jerk."
Uribe's campaign will focus on maximizing revenue from state lands to help fund neighborhood schools, while also concentrating on how the state can best promote renewable energy.
Meanwhile, Uribe's Republican opponent threatened to shoot him last week.
Uribe said he isn't at all disturbed by the empty threat, explaining that if he can survive a Coen Brothers script, he can survive Jerry Patterson.
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