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TexasTowelie

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Tue Feb 22, 2022, 10:17 PM Feb 2022

South Carolina governor candidate Joe Cunningham announces campaign staff with sitcom-inspired video

A candidate running to become South Carolina’s next governor found a creative way to introduce his campaign staff on Monday.

Joe Cunningham, the former congressman running for the Democratic nomination for governor, announced his new staff with a video that parodies the opening to the 1990s sitcom “Family Matters,” with staffers appearing to the show’s signature theme song.

The show was a hit. Its nine-season run made “Family Matters” the second-longest-running live action U.S. sitcom featuring a predominantly African-American cast, second only to “The Jeffersons.”

Cunningham, who is white, appears at the start of the minute-long video released on Twitter with the title “future governor.”

Read more at: https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article258615168.html


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South Carolina governor candidate Joe Cunningham announces campaign staff with sitcom-inspired video (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2022 OP
Very creative, much diversity on staff, a Democratic I assume from looking at the video. brush Feb 2022 #1
Very catchy. LoisB Feb 2022 #2

brush

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1. Very creative, much diversity on staff, a Democratic I assume from looking at the video.
Tue Feb 22, 2022, 11:20 PM
Feb 2022

He's got a good chance. Now to get Rep. Clyburn's endorsement.

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