The news has just been awful lately … around the world and here at home. It’s hard to even smile. I’m just going to put up this week’s ScuttleButton puzzle and let you take a shot at it. It’s just grim out there.
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!
Enter your submission using the convenient submission form below, or email your submission to scuttlebutton@krpoliticaljunkie.com. You must include your name and city/state to be eligible.
Good luck!
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Goode / Democrat for Mayor— Wilson Goode was elected mayor of Philadelphia in 1983, the first African-American to do so.
We Won’t Go Back / NOW / Baltimore Chapter / We Will Fight Back —Button from the National Organization for Women.
I’m for Nixon, Bennett, Lloyd, Buehner, Etc. & HUNT Of Course —OK, so we know it’s a 1968 Richard Nixon coattail from Utah, with fellow Republican candidates Wallace Bennett for Senate, Sherm Lloyd for Congress, and Carl Buehner for governor. But who’s Hunt?
Teen-Age Republican / TARS —GOP button from 1966.
So, when you add Goode + Will + Hunt + Teen, you kinda get …
Good Will Hunting. The 1997 movie where Robin Williams won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. We tragically lost Robin Williams earlier this month.
And the randomly-selected winner is … Matthew Jetzt of Freehold, N.J. Matthew gets the coveted Political Junkie button.