Boo! The Return of Those Funny, "Fake" Anti-Trinity Toll Road Ads

If nothing else, my 4-year-old thinks Justin Spence's follow-up to yesterday's unofficial Vote Yes! ad is just swell. "I like that," says the kid. "It's funny. Very ... Halloweeny." Then again, he also liked this Sam Coats ad, and look where that got Coats. --Robert Wilonsky Update: Today's Wall Street...

By Robert Wilonsky

October 31, 2007

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If nothing else, my 4-year-old thinks Justin Spence's follow-up to yesterday's unofficial Vote Yes! ad is just swell. "I like that," says the kid. "It's funny. Very ... Halloweeny." Then again, he also liked this Sam Coats ad, and look where that got Coats. --Robert Wilonsky

Update: Today's Wall Street Journal contains a piece about the Trinity River toll road debate, a small portion of which is available here to non-subscribers.

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