--- description: Texas politician releases attack ad that's a parody of "Let It Go" from 'Frozen' title: Politician Releases Attack Ad That's a Parody of "Let It Go" from 'Frozen' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Was Inevitable: Politician Releases Attack Ad That's a Parody of "Let It Go" from _Frozen_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer May 9, 2014 8:17 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer May 9, 2014 8:17 PM CUT We’re sure by now you’ve seen dozens of covers of “Let It Go” from _Frozen_ (we’ve ranked [the best ones here](http://time.com/9229/let-it-go-covers-frozen/ "undefined")). This week, parodying the song became a campaign tactic in the May 27 Republican primary runoff for lieutenant governor in Texas. The incumbent David Dewhurst released a “Let It Go” parody with the refrain “Dannie Goeb,” the birth name of Dan Patrick, a state senator who is also in the race. The ad shows a caricature of Patrick, a former sportscaster, dressed like _Frozen’s_ Elsa, the princess of Arendelle, singing into a microphone about how he changed his name “to cover my past” and past financial issues. The Patrick campaign refers voters to [PolitiFact Texas](http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2014/apr/18/david-dewhurst/david-dewhurst-lofts-ridiculous-unsupported-claim-/ "undefined"), a website run by PolitiFact.com and the _Austin American-Statesman,_ which says the Dewhurst campaign’s claim is false. [In response](http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/05/patricks-birth-name-and-past-as-whacky-houston-sportscaster-are-targets-in-dewhurst-video.html/ "undefined") to the “Let It Go” spoof, the Patrick team created a BuzzFeed parody called [DewFeed](http://dewfeed.com/the-real-story-of-frozen-in-the-texas-lg-race/ "undefined") to highlight “the real story of _Frozen_ in the Texas LG race” that is a list of arguments accompanied by _Frozen_ GIFs. This “Let It Go” meme — when will everyone just let it go? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/94546/this-was-inevitable-politician-releases-attack-ad-thats-a-parody-of-let-it-go-from-frozen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/94546/this-was-inevitable-politician-releases-attack-ad-thats-a-parody-of-let-it-go-from-frozen/"},"headline":"This Was Inevitable: Politician Releases Attack Ad That's a Parody of \"Let It Go\" from Frozen","datePublished":"2014-05-09T20:17:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:34.121Z","description":"The Disney movie just got political","url":"https://time.com/94546/this-was-inevitable-politician-releases-attack-ad-thats-a-parody-of-let-it-go-from-frozen/","keywords":["Newsfeed","nation"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/94546/this-was-inevitable-politician-releases-attack-ad-thats-a-parody-of-let-it-go-from-frozen/","name":"This Was Inevitable: Politician Releases Attack Ad That's a Parody of \"Let It Go\" from Frozen"}}]}] ```