Two groups are pouring big money into North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race with new ads attacking Democrat Kay Hagan and Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
The Employee Freedom Action Committee, an anti-union group, is spending $1 million on online ads and mailings that criticize Hagan, according to spokesman Tim Miller.
The group is attacking her support for legislation that would make it easier for unions to organize. It’s also spending $2 million for a TV ad featuring former
Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern criticizing the legislation. The ad is running in North Carolina and a half-dozen other states.
The committee is affiliated with The Center for Union Facts. It opposes the legislation, which would allow workers to unionize by signing cards instead of through a secret-ballot election.
“Kay supports it as a way to level the playing field for working families,” said Hagan spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan. “This bill simply allows the workers, not the employers, to decide which method to use, and stiffens penalties for intimidation.”
Meanwhile, a veterans’ group is spending $200,000 on TV ads saying Dole voted against body armor for troops.
The ad by VoteVets.org features a man identified as an Iraq war veteran firing shots from an AK-47 through a flak jacket given out early in the war. He also fires into more modern body armor, which stops the shots. It claims Dole twice voted against the more modern armor.
The ad appears to be the same one used in 2006 in a Virginia Senate race.
According to the watchdog site FactCheck.org, the votes came on a 2003 amendment that would have appropriated just over $1 billion for unspecified “National Guard and Reserve Equipment” but made no mention of body armor. The amendment lost on a generally party-line vote.
The group called the ad false.
“America’s active duty personnel and veterans have no greater friend than Elizabeth Dole,” said campaign spokesman Dan McLagan. “To accuse her of causing them harm is the lowest form of sleazeball politics.”
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
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We have all these rules governing what candidates and their supporters can spend on their own campaings. Then we have these outside interest groups with seemingly unlimited resources to barge into the campaign debate here in North Carolina and make what negative statements they wish to put forward against this candidate or that one.
It all seems to call into question the very functions and purposes of campaign finance oversight. Meanwhile, the case could be made that sometimes these outside interest groups with their large ad budgets can wind up hurting the very candidates they presumably are seeking to boost because of the unsavory images created by these negative attacks.
Elizabethy Dole and Kay Hagen are better candidates and better people than some of these outside interest groups have portrayed them to be. It is unfortunate that even the candidates themselves cannot control what some of these outside attack groups are doing to distort the political debate in the Old North State.
Dole voted against the 1st "bailout plan".
Sue Myrick voted against the 1st "bailout plan".
However they voted for the second one after Democrats ADDED another 100 billion into it. Let's not forget a couple million for the sufferers of the Exxon Valdez spill.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122437428735247797.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Take a read on that..
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