The wrong jabs of George Wendt in John Boehner Link ‘Sheers’ and Ohio Politics

There was no mistake when the rule, but an accountant, Forlorn standard, Peterson headed for the fictional television bar “Greetings”.

“Norm !!!” He pointed out the usual ones in Unison, ranging from Cliff Clavin to “Mayday” Sam Malone, the former League League library converted the Barkeep.

If only the former president of the chamber, John Boehner, R-Ohio, or the late representative Buz Lukens, R-Ohio, would have been so recognizable for George Wendt, the actor who performed the rule at the police station.

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Wendt died last week at the age of 76. The character of “Willy Loman” Wendt, “Willy Loman”, was one of the most iconic in comic television history. Norm’s Wendt portrait earned six Emmy’s consecutive nominations for the best support actor in a first -hour series.

But during Boehner’s first career for Congress in 1990, Wendt unnoticed a strange and permanent connection with the future chamber speaker.

In 1989, Lukens represented the 8th district of Ohio Congress. But Wsyx-TV in Columbus, Ohio, secretly registered Lukens in McDonald’s speech with a teenager’s mother. Lukens spoke with the woman to achieve a government job. He hoped to keep it silent about his sexual activities with his daughter.

Lukens denied any crime in public. He was accused and later convicted of contributing to the crime of a minor. The Chamber’s Ethics Committee launched an investigation. But Lukens refused to leave out. This launched a three-way Republican primary between Lukens, the former congressman who represented the district, the late representative Tom Kindness, R-Ohio and Boehner.

Boehner was a state legislator at that time. The scandal that Lukens wrapped up created a rare opportunity to go to Washington.

For strange, Boehner was the least known of the three Republican candidates in what turned out to be a brutal primary. But Boehner’s political enthusiasm shone, decades before he ascended to the speaker’s suite.

Despite the scandal, Lukens remained popular in the district. He had served as a congressman decades earlier and returned to the chamber when the goodness ran unsuccessfully by the Senate against the end of Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, in 1986. So with Lukens’s scandal, kindness wanted his job to return. And Boehner hoped to take the opportunity.

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Can you contact such a name? “Congressman’s kindness.” It is not surprising that it was a challenge for the speaker and future with the non -neglected Teutonic surname.

But Boehner won. And although Lukens and kindness fell, it was not an agreement that Boehner won the general election.

Boehner went against the Democrat Greg Jolivette, the mayor of Hamilton, Ohio, the largest city in the 8th Congressional district. Jolivette was better known for renaming “Hamilton”, in “Hamilton!” In the 1980’s. He also directed Jolly’s impulses in Hamilton. Imagine -you are the 70’s Hamburger Boards where you can ask from your car, with an orange.

But we are talking about “encouragement” here. No “happy days”.

Wendt lived up to his popularity during the summer of 1990, while Boehner and Jolivette quarreled to a general election clash. So Wendt appeared on Night TV in “The Arsenio Hall Show”.

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Hall’s union show never exceeded “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” from NBC to the ratings. But the program scored main headlines in 1992, when the future President Bill Clinton interpreted the saxophone on the program to try to appeal to a younger demographic, which gravitated Hall instead of Carson.

Clinton’s appearance was a seminal time in North -American politics and maybe he would have helped him win the election. Undoubtedly, the most important political event on the Hall program. Wendt’s appearance turned out to be the second most important.

Jolivette was Wendt’s brother -in -law. It appeared periodically in the 8th Ohio district to campaign for Jolivette and against Boehner. Hall asked about Wendt and Jolivette’s political participation.

Wendt essentially proceeded to Boehner in the air. Wendt never mentioned Boehner by name. But Wendt mixed Lukens and his sexual scandal with Boehner. On national television, no more or less.

“The guy who is directed by he had some problems behind,” said Wendt, referring to Jolivette’s rival, but mixing Boehner with Lukens. “The type of the 8th district had some convictions, a crime or a foul or something. So I think it’s time for a change. One thing is sure, I know, Greg will not be a criminal.”

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Hall is natural of Ohio. But it was apparently not in the Lukens scandal, although it was a national story and commanded the daily headlines. He did not ask anymore or corrected Wendt. After all, it was a comedy and night variety program. Not “knowing the press”.

A Hall publicist blamed the subject completely in Wendt, saying that the host has no control over “what the guests will say).

Things became unpleasant when the Boehner team made a statement.

“We, like many viewers, are confused with the conversation last night. We do not know if they were talking about the problems of Congressman Lukens or perhaps the robbery complaint filed with Hamilton (Ohio) police against Greg Jolivette,” said Boehner’s campaign.

Jolivette’s campaign argued that this was an ancient complaint and was not true. They then demanded that Boehner Fire Barry Jackson, the Boehner campaign manager. Jackson called the Episode “Cheap Gutter Politics”.

Boehner himself nailed the wrong identity to Wendt. He believed that the actor should have been more responsible than he said on national television.

Boehner did not shoot Jackson. Jackson worked with Boehner for years and then acted as a cabinet head when he became a speaker of the chamber.

Wendt’s gafa was not fatal for Boehner. Although there were almost as many Democrats as Republicans registered in the 8th district in those days, he had been elected Republicans for years. And Boehner beat Jolivette 61-39 percent in the general election.

The rest is history for Boehner.

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Progressing quickly to this day. Boehner took ax After the death of the actor. The former president explained how Wendt was his opponent’s brother -in -law and “went to a night -time television show and said some difficult things.”

Boehner said Wendt was “confusing -to someone else. He called later to apologize and we had a great conversation. Raising a drink tonight the man who America will always remember as a rule.”

Or, as they could say in the program, “Greetings”.