So said River City, Iowa’s Mayor Shinn in Meredeth Wilson’s The Music Man. How right he was, because you never know when your phraseology will come back to bite you in your butt.

State Senator Alberta Darling has served in the Senate since 1992 and has been re-elected three times. (She won a seat in the Assembly in a special election in March, 1990, and won the seat the regular Election that Fall.) Her Senate seat comes up again this Fall, and her seat has been targeted by the Democrats, a risky proposition in a very conservative district. Senator Darling is a cancer survivor, she exercises regularly and promotes fitness.

Her opponent, Sheldon Wasserman, started a rather smarmy campaign a few weeks ago, a whispering campaign claiming that Senator Darling was ill and too sickly to serve the rigors of the state Senate.

Besides being despicable, the whispering campaign is just untrue.

Yesterday, at the US Bank Championship, several celebrity events were held prior to the start of the golf tournament today. Amongst other events was a golf ball driving contest.

Sheldon Wasserman drove the ball 135 yards.

Alberta Darling drove the ball 153 yards.

Oops.