Wrong race! Wrong office! But nice colors!

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Wrong race! Wrong office! But nice colors!

Joe Heck, currently challenging Congresswoman Dina Titus for the 3rd Congressional District, might want to deal with this blast-from-the-past sign, which my spies report is currently up on Sunset Road in Henderson.

Yeah, that’s the wrong office! Heck hasn’t been a candidate for state Senate since 2008, when he was defeated by Shirley Breeden. And he’s certainly not running for re-election. I know mistakes happen on campaigns, but the mistakes are much easier to see when they’re on huge signs, no?

But as long as we’re bringing up campaign slogans from the past, can we resurrect “I Like Ike”? That was always a good one, before the campaign of Barry Goldwater started the Republican nihilist movement that’s so in vogue these days.

UPDATE: A Heck adviser e-mailed to say the sign in question was put up by a third-party, and not the Heck campaign itself. But the campaign is looking into how the old Heck sign made it back on to the streets of Henderson. (Hey, it could be worse: Remember Heck was in the race for governor for awhile? If a “Heck for Governor” sign showed up, that would be really confusing!)

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