I think there is blame to go around on both sides for how easy last week’s ScuttleButton was. Hopefully this one is more challenging.
How to Play
ScuttleButton, as you may know, is that weekly waste-of-time exercise where we post a vertical sequence of campaign buttons. Your job is to take one word (or concept) per button and add ’em up to arrive at a famous name or familiar expression. Guess the correct phrase and you could be the proud winner of the coveted Political Junkie button!
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Elect Amoth Governor — Ralph Amoth lost the 1946 Republican gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin to Gov. Walter Goodland.
Ann Richards Governor — Elected in Texas in 1990.
Ann Richards Governor/Phone Team — See above.
Walter Huddleston/D/U.S. Senate — Walter “Dee” Huddleston, a Democrat, was first elected in Kentucky in 1972.
So, when you combine Amoth + Ann + Ann + D, you kinda get …
Amoth and Andy. It’s that TV show from the 1950s, with a lisp.
And the randomly selected winner is … Jim McSherry of Frederick, Md.