Campaign turns to screen (Republican,Florida)

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Thu, Jul. 08, 2004

Campaign turns to screen

To boost his name recognition, U.S. Senate candidate Doug Gallagher released a movie about himself that will debut this month at the Tower Theater in Little Havana.

BY MARC CAPUTO

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Call it Gallagher 411, a biopic movie short that's the latest headline grabber from Doug Gallagher, a self-described ''come-from-nowhere'' Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Florida.

The self-made millionaire, who is pumping $3 million and counting into his campaign, released a trailer Wednesday of the movie that he intends to debut July 21 at the Tower Theater in Little Havana. Gallagher wouldn't say when and where else it would appear.

A likely first in Florida politics, the movie casts the Coral Gables businessman as an outsider in an eight-candidate race dominated by lawyers. Gallagher said it will also feature his campaign themes: low taxes, support of the president, limits on lawsuits and support for embryonic stem-cell research.

Amidst the policy, the movie weaves in humorous shots of gray-haired go-along senators applying Washington logic to the simple task of dining: When they sit down for lunch, the camera closes in to show a senator trying to eat soup with a fork.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/9102617.htm
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Miami, FL - Doug Gallagher, candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Florida, today claimed Miami-Dade as "Gallagher County" after garnering strong support for his candidacy from State Representative Gus Barreiro (R-Miami), who Gallagher also named as Miami-Dade Campaign Chairman, one of Miami-Dade County's leading Cuban-American state legislators.
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http://www.gallagherforsenate.com/

(Republican Cuban-American Gus Barreiro ran a campaign group, "Americans for Jeb Bush" in the last Florida Governor's race, and got so nasty toward Janet Reno Jeb Bush had to publically distance himself from Barreira's group.)

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/3000837.htm?ERIGHTS=-7441160034573888002miami:&KRD_RM=3mkmlmmlnkjppmjjjjjjjjjsko|

[Robbien]

1. This guy wants people to pay $10 to see a campaign commercial?

Now who would do that?

[mhr]

2. Who Would Vote For Such A Beady Eyed Republican

If looks could kill!