Moroun ads target presidential hopefuls; poll shows support for public bridge

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit News

Last Updated: September 19. 2011 2:27PM
Moroun ads target presidential hopefuls; poll shows support for public bridge
Paul Egan/ Detroit News Lansing Bureau


Lansing — The owners of the Ambassador Bridge are airing TV ads in Iowa urging voters there to tell presidential candidates they don't support a new public bridge across the Detroit River.

Two Iowa residents with connections to Michigan emailed The Detroit News in the past 24 hours after seeing the ads, which describe the proposed public span as "another bridge to nowhere." A TV station official in Iowa confirmed Monday it has been airing ads paid for by the Detroit International Bridge Co.

"I was certainly surprised," said Bradon Smith, a former Michigan resident studying law at the University of Iowa.

In Michigan, the Ambassador's owners have spent $4.7 million this year on TV ads opposing the bridge, according to a report released Monday by the Michigan Campaign Finance Network.


Read more: http://detnews.com/article/20110919/POLITICS02/109190374/Moroun-ads-target-presidential-hopefuls--poll-shows-support-for-public-bridge#ixzz1YRCMcw6J

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And this from a few days back:

The battle has spread as far as Toronto, where Moroun paid for television ads. Fox TV commentator Dick Morris said in an interview with WJR-AM radio in March that Moroun had hired him to advise the campaign. Americans for Prosperity, the free- market advocacy group founded by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, conducted a public relations campaign, including mass mailings to voters.

“He has co-opted some of the Tea Party movement, which sends shivers up Republicans’ backbones,” said Tom Shields, spokesman for a coalition of business, labor and political leaders supporting Snyder’s plan. “He’s done a pretty good job of taking a stand that this is free enterprise versus big government.”

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-14/detroit-bridge-owner-gets-kochs-backing-to-keep-canada-crossing-his-alone.html

[msongs]

1. He is against competition??????? a tea bagger against competition. ok nt

[Ian David]

2. Get a Brain! Moroun! n/t

[Bozita]

3. You can almost smell the odor of Dick Morris' dirty feet on this stunt...

Stephen Henderson: Anti-bridge eviction notices evoke ugliness of blockbusting
2:01 PM, Jun. 7, 2011
BY STEPHEN HENDERSON
DETROIT FREE PRESS EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR


Emotional terrorism is the cowardly refuge of someone on the losing end of an argument.

Thus Americans for Prosperity, the conservative group unable to muster any real facts in opposition to a publicly built bridge across the Detroit River, has resorted to preying on the fears of residents in one of the city's most distressed areas.

The indecency of the group's campaign is eclipsed only by the obvious desperation of its cause.

The group crassly posted fake "Eviction" notices on doors all across Delray this week, ostensibly to "startle" residents into seeing that construction for a new bridge would take their homes.

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http://www.freep.com/article/20110607/BLOG2503/110607038/Stephen-Henderson-Anti-bridge-eviction-notices-evoke-ugliness-blockbusting