‘Jim the Election Guy’ is Maryland actor Beau Peregino
Thursday, September 09, 2010 at 8:28 am
MinnPost’s Derek Wallbank dug in and found the answer to many people’s question: Who is “Jim the Election Guy” in Rep. Michele Bachmann’s campaign ads? He’s not “Jim” at all, but Beau Peregino, a Maryland actor currently living in California. Besides starring in a campaign ad for the most expensive U.S. House race in the country, he is best known for his appearance in one episode of the short lived Discovery Channel program “A Haunting” and as “Detective #1″ in an episode of National Geographic Channel’s “Interpol Investigates.”
Bachmann’s “Jim the Election Guy” creation has been attacked by DFL opponent Tarryl Clark, whose latest ad features “Jim the Actual Voter” — Sixth Congressional District residents actually named Jim. Clark’s campaign has challenged Bachmann’s use of an actor not from Minnesota (her campaign didn’t respond to the Minnesota Independent’s request weeks ago for the actor’s identity). Each of Bachmann’s three ads featuring Jim the Election Guy have attacked Clark on the issue of taxes.
Bachmann’s campaign defended the use of Peregino.
“The point of the ad is not who he is,” Sergio Gor, Bachmann’s campaign spokesman, told MinnPost. “It’s that Tarryl Clark is in favor of raising taxes on everything.”
12 Comments
Comment posted September 9, 2010 @ 11:24 am
Great job. Now how about you find out where Mark Dayton is keeping all of his money to avoid Minnesota taxes. I call this site Bachmann watcher because it seems her, and lately Tom Emmer, are the only people you guys dig up dirt on.
Comment posted September 9, 2010 @ 11:48 am
The titles of the TV episodes Mr. Peregino has appeared in are “Stealing History” and “Gateway to Hell.”
Comment posted September 9, 2010 @ 3:08 pm
Sergio Gor, Bachmann’s campaign liar can say what his Boss tells him to, but to us in the 6th it’s why bachmann thinks we should respond to a phony. Seems like Shelly can’t tell the difference. Maybe it’s the 1.5 million voices in her head.
Comment posted September 9, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
Maybe a way to put an end to attack ads is to reveal the identities of the people who make them. Certainly if actors were told they would be typecast as attack ad actors, they’d be very hesitant to make these things. They work only because they aren’t known, or they have a reassuring voice, or they have a familiar voice, like low-pitched guy who did Miller Highlife ads some years ago and now does GOP attack ads. If he was identified, the producers might atl east have to find a less trusted voice.
Comment posted September 9, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
The reason Bachmann and Emmer are constantly on here is because they are alway lying and distorting the truth in whatever mannner necessary to try and drum up votes and mislead minnesotans into thinking that the democrats are the bad guys.
Comment posted September 9, 2010 @ 7:02 pm
I find it very interesting that Michele Bachmann is so extremely anti-gay, yet she’ll hire a gay actor (Beau Peregino) to do her campaign ads. Typical Bachmann hypocrite! she’ll do whatever suits her purposes. But on the bright side….thanks for supporting the gay community Michele!!
P.S. Satin called and he misses you Michele! Call him for lunch.
Comment posted September 9, 2010 @ 9:40 pm
After all this time, she *still* can’t create a job in Minnesota.
Comment posted September 10, 2010 @ 7:34 am
The only complaint the Clark campaign can come up with is something that was completely obvious-an actor. If this is such a problem, it’s obvious that Tarryl would worry more about small things than real issues like the economy, taxes, immigration, etc. Where are Terryl’s postions on those areas? Not with the voters, that’s for sure.
Comment posted September 10, 2010 @ 1:03 pm
re Matt and Dayton’s income:
OH Snore!! Any money paid to Dayton from his trust fund, regardless od where that family trust funds “lives” is registered as income to him and he pays MN taxes on it.
This lie about Dayton hiding income is of course the GOP scheme. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.
Uggh
Comment posted September 11, 2010 @ 7:58 pm
Hmm…high quality production, Califoria Actor…it looks like our little Michelle has gone Hollywood. She couldn’t have done this here? We don’t have production companies in Minnesota? We don’t have out of work actors in Minnesota? Or did the special interests funding her campaign and Hollywood lifestyle insist on using out of state facilities? We aren’t good enough for them I guess. Too bad her tea-bagger followers don’t see her for what she really is. A dishonest opportunist.
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Comment posted September 14, 2010 @ 2:33 am
1. He’s not gay. At all.
2. He’s not living in California.
3. What the heck does it even matter?
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