Wayne Hoffman is the Chief Running Board of Idaho politics. If you grew up in the '60s, you might remember Chief Running Board from "Go Go Gophers" - a cartoon parody of westward expansion in which a couple of Indians are horribly stereotyped as stubborn gophers. (They were slightly redeemed by the fact that they always got the better of the coyotes representing a buffoonish cavalry.) Hoffman reminds me of the character because the other gopher, Ruffled Feathers, always spoke in complete gibberish. "What did he say?" a befuddled Col. Kit Coyote would ask. Chief Running Board would respond, "Him say ... " and launch into a lengthy translation of his friend's babblings. As a spokesman for Rep. Bill Sali, R-Idaho, Hoffman often finds himself with the unenviable task of turning the congressman's gibberish into something that doesn't make the average listener say, "What the ... ?" -- Tom Henderson/Lewiston Tribune
Question: Are you satisfied with Congressman Sali's performance so far?
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
from "Go Go Gophers" - a cartoon parody of westward expansion in which a couple of Indians are horribly stereotyped as stubborn gophers. (They were slightly redeemed by the fact that they always got the better of the coyotes representing a buffoonish cavalry.) Hoffman reminds me of the character because the other gopher, Ruffled Feathers, always spoke in complete gibberish. "What did he say?" a befuddled Col. Kit Coyote would ask. Chief Running Board would respond, "Him say ... " and launch into a lengthy translation of his friend's babblings. As a spokesman for Rep. Bill Sali, R-Idaho, Hoffman often finds himself with the unenviable task of turning the congressman's gibberish into something that doesn't make the average listener say, "What the ... ?" -- Tom Henderson/Lewiston Tribune
