IN PLACE OF ATTACK ADS.

It's the election season, which means the sinister-sounding music and eerie voices on the air are not the Hallowe'en programming.

There are, however, people who are considering a different approach.  In Illinois, Republican Senate hopeful Kathy Salvi has been running a spot that starts a lot like a Geico home hazards commercial, only it's swarms of Officers, harassing people and eating out their substance.

I'm not sure how well the advert works, or whether people will tune it out because it starts like a Geico ad, or because it isn't a Geico ad.

But it might not be mannerly to run a standard-issue attack ad on injured war veteran Tammy Duckworth, although there might be wavering Democrat voters and country-club Republicans who are not on board with the Combine's corona tyranny in-state and the Jarrett regency in Washington.

In Washington, Tiffany Smiley, who is married to an injured war veteran, is taking on long-time ditz Patty Murray for the Senate, and one of her not-quite-attack ads struck some nerves in Seattle.

Several Seattle businesses are apparently sleepless over their cameo appearances therein.  That includes the Seattle Times, whose editors are upset that she's telling the truth about Seattle.

The state Republican Party has long pointed at Seattle as a cautionary example, trying to paint suburban, rural and statewide Democrats as one of a kind with Seattle progressives.

Smiley’s ads use Seattle backdrops to make arguments about COVID-era school closures and urban crime.

If the shoe fits, Democrats!

Turf them out.