From the ADN:
The California-based political action group, which reported spending more than $550,000 on the bare-knuckle ads that helped Joe Miller stun Murkowski during the August primary, will spend another "six figures" on Alaska's Senate race for the Nov. 2 general election, chairwoman Amy Kremer told reporters.
"We're here to let Lisa Murkowski know that 'no' means 'no,' " Kremer said Monday morning as the Tea Party Express unveiled two new TV commercials.
One spot cheers Miller's military background. The other goes after Murkowski, telling voters she was appointed to office by her "daddy" -- complete with an image of a red bow on a Senate seat -- and painting the seven-year incumbent as manipulative and self-interested.
The Murkowski camp swung back in the afternoon with a statement saying the commercials are "littered with lies" and calling on Alaska broadcasters to pull them before they hit the airwaves. The ads should be placed on hold until claims are verified, the campaign said.
"Alaskans deserve a better political discourse than this," said Murkowski. "This ad is vile."
Apparently Murkowski is more than a little pissy over ads like this one:
I don't know about the rest of you, but watching the Republicans going toe to toe with the Frankenstein monsters of their own creation kind of gives me the warm fuzzies.
Hey do you know who ISN'T involved in a preschool pissing match? Yep you got it!
It's not just one, or two, or even just a handful of TeaParty PACs and even more shadowy political "non-profits" that are spending difficult to track-and-add-up millions on RightWing candidates.
ReplyDeleteSince the primaries, they have increased exponentially, all over the country. I'm a campaign finance record nerd and I have all but given up trying to follow them. Many are supported by just one or two extremely wealthy contributors - who regularly contribute over a million dollars, multiple times.
There is no limit to the expenditures, and little acountability, unlike the actual candidates' election PACs. They just can't "coordinate" directly with the candidate.
Yeah, right.
Ever wonder how perfectly a perfectly reasonable, civilized country such as German could have been hijacked by a loon such as Hitler?
We are watching it unfold before our eyes, right here in our own country.
As much as it pains me to say this *I agree* with Murkowski - these ads are vile and misleading. But then most of the political ads these days are vile and misleading.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't get is how come there's not a bigger stink made over the fact that there even exists a California PAC for Alaska candidate Joe Miller? What the heck does California have to do with an Alaska Senatorial election?
This smells of the California state election in 2008 when a Colorado religious group run by whats-his-name Dobson spent over half a mil of Colorado church donations to send busloads of evangelists into Calif to overturn the gay marriage law. And they got *their* vote out and won by the way -
Is this the political wave of the future? Interstate interference?
The Tea-Party wants us to believe that No means No?
ReplyDeleteUntil you cry "No" to your rapist and still get pregnant. Your No means nothing and the Tea Party takes over your womb. How's that for keeping Government out of your lives?
OzMud @ 2:51 - there was already intrastate interference in the Muni of Anchorage two summer's ago when non-municipal resident fundies were bussed in and given representation by the Assembly to urge them not to adopt gay rights in workplace and services matters.
ReplyDeleteRepresentation without taxation, I'm sure Anchorage Homeowners are pleased to lend their voice to non-residents. Especially now that Mayor Sullivan wants to raise their property taxes.
Getting campaign financing fixed is just one more reason to vote for the Dem coalition this year. Go Scott McAdams and other Dems all around the country.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to stop the money then go Get Out the Vote. GOTV.
Would they be making these same commercials if SP had been given the senate seat?
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