WI Recall Candidate Lori Compas Wins Bimbo Bakery Award

HORSHAM, PA. Lori Compas, running against WI Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, has won the prestigious Bimbo Bakery award in the category "Best Campaign Ad, Wisconsin Recall Election." The Compas video (above) ran in rebuttal to a Wisconsin State Journal article (here) in which Fitzgerald commented that Ms. Compas' husband, Whitewater Professor Eric Compas, union bosses and protest groups were behind the campaign. In the video, Ms. Compas finds Fitzgerald's comment about women "bizarre and a little bit offensive" but typical of the right-wing mentality.

Traditionally, the Bimbo Bakery does not give out awards for actual achievement, but Ms. Compas' ad was so directly on the mark and used humor so effectively that it received the award. In a field of ads showing blow-dryed gassbags making vacuous promises and "pants-on-fire" claims, Ms. Compas' ad was truly refreshing, especially since sarcasm is lost on children, the Tea Party and certainly Scott Fitzgerald, R-WI.