Friends of Rosalind Kurita, Straight Shooter

Rife with unintended campiness, this ad for Tennessee State Sen. Rosalind Kurita begins with footage from a skeet shoot in September 2004. Kurita sits on a picnic table, with her gun and her friends.

"Around here, we like a straight shooter," says a narrator. "That's Senator Rosalind Kurita. Senator Kurita kept her word, voting to fix TennCare and voting against an income tax."

Footage of Kurita speaking appears in a small box in the corner of the screen, but the majority of the ad is composed of Kurita posing with her gun. Wearing aviator glasses and a vest, she takes aim and then adjusts her hat.

"Kurita voted to ban partial birth abortion and voted against gay marriage," says the narrator. She points her gun at another target as the narrator enthusiastically says, "And she's not a bad shot, either!"

"My job is to shoot straight, keep my word, and vote in line with our values," says the Senator, now dressed professionally as she stands in a fenced-in field.

"A straight shooter. Our Senator, Rosalind Kurita," reiterates the narrator.

Democrat Kurita won the race for her third term as Senator with 57% of the vote, beating out Republican Brenda Radford. Kurita intends to run for U.S. Senate in 2006, hoping for the seat of departing Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist, according to The (Clarksville) Leaf-Chronicle.