As America prepares for the lame duck session of Congress, I thought I would do my part with a lame ScuttleButton puzzle. Seems fair to me.
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.
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I’m for Ben Again — Ben Blackburn, a Republican member of Congress from Georgia, from his re-election bid in 1970.
Michael Steele U.S. Senate — The lt. gov. of Maryland, he was the GOP nominee for the Senate in 2006, when he lost to Ben Cardin (D).
Innis for Mayor/Save New York — Roy Innis, the head of the Congress of Racial Equality, unsuccessfully challenged incumbent David Dinkins in the 1993 Democratic primary.
Bear Congress — Franklin Bear was the Democratic nominee against Rep. Frank Becker (R-N.Y.) in 1962.
Join Hans Tanzler for Governor — He finished third in the 1978 Democratic primary in Florida.
So, when you combine Ben + Steele + Innis + Bear + Hans, you very well might arrive at …
Bend Steel In His Bare Hands. And that can only mean Superman.
And this week’s randomly-selected winner is … Mike Donohue of Washington, D.C. Mike gets the coveted Political Junkie button.
And lest we forget …