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Tubas and Politics sometimes don't mix:
http://instantnewswestu.com/2011/03/15/17579/

and a follow-up blog commentary (slightly NSFW for swearing)
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs ... _counc.php

I don't know whether to take pride or offense at the description of "Hair Balls", the editor in the second piece:

(Hair Balls must interject here: If Shields is trying to be the candidate of clear-eyed sobriety, he would do well to change his campaign picture. When we see pictures of pudgy, middle-aged, ruddy-faced guys holding tubas, huge steins of foam-topped bock and pilsner come forth to us unbidden.)