Tommy Sowers approves campaign message with shotgun blast

Tommy Sowers, a Democrat hoping to represent southeast Missouri in Congress, has found a way to add pizazz to those “I’m Chauncey Haircut, and I approved this message” disclaimers at the end of campaign commercials.

With a little help from his friends Smith and Wesson, Sowers says he approved a TV spot criticizing his opponent, Jo Ann Emerson, after firing a shotgun at an unidentified object. The borders-on-parody commercial ends with a few bars of a country rock song and Sowers looking in the camera as the smoke of his freshly fired round commingles with the sweet Missouri air.