Anchorage Mayoral advertisements. Can't you just feel the excitement? Yeah me either.

So here is Eric Croft's advertisement suggesting that most, if not all, of the Anchorage's financial problems could be solved if only City Hall and the School District did not insist upon being selfish and buying their own toilet plungers instead of just sharing one. Croft does know that there are a lot of toilets in Anchorage doesn't he?

Sheila Selkregg found Croft's commercial so ready for parody that she could not resist poking fun at it, completely forgetting that she and Eric are not the only candidates in the running.

Next up is acting mayor Matt Claman's newest ad.

Claman seems to think that being the mayor is just like white water rafting. No seriously.

It kind of reminds me of those Klondike bar commercials where somebody bites into one and suddenly thinks they are flying off of a ski jump instead of simply standing in the frozen food section of a grocery store and having a psychotic episode.

The next time I see him I am going to come up behind him and ask "Where do you think you are now Matt?" That should be fun.

Okay this last one is Walt Monegan's. Just like his website Walt's advertisement has a lot of information.

Now the funny thing about this is that I have spent some time talking to Walt, one on one. And this is EXACTLY how he is in real life. You ask him a question and he launches into some anecdote about something he saw or dealt with while working as a patrolman, or when he ran the department as Chief of Police. Sometimes it answered your question, and sometimes it didn't.

In other words Walt has yet to master the sound bite. Not that I am sure that is necessarily a bad thing.

Now I want to clarify that I did look for commercials from ALL of the mayoral candidates. I could not locate any others. The only other candidate that I know has a commercial is Dan Sullivan, because I have seen it. But apparently Dan did not bother to put it up on YouTube.

But if one of Dan's staff want to send me a link in the comments section I promise to post it and make snarky comments about it. How can you pass up on that?