Attack Ad Riles Johnson & Murphy (MoveOn Ad & Ct's 5th Dist. Race)

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Copyright © 2006 Republican-American

U.S. Rep. Nancy Johnson, R-5th District, has been caught red-handed, or that's what the liberal activist group MoveOn.org would like voters to believe.

In a television ad airing in the Waterbury area, Johnson, a Republican, is being accused of accepting more than $250,000 from energy and oil companies and voting against legislation that would lower gas prices.

The NBC station in Hartford decided against running the controversial ad, but the Waterbury Fox-affiliate station, WTXX, is airing it, along with Johnson's counterattack.

The advertisement is the first in a series that MoveOn.org is planning to distribute.

The ads attempt to link Johnson to Texas Rep. Tom DeLay, Vice President Cheney and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The liberal organization is targeting Republican incumbents in advance of the November elections.

MoveOn video link: https://political.moveon.org/donate/redhandedJ-QT.html

More:
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-johnsonads0404.artapr04,0,2625194.story?coll=hc-headlines-politics

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1. On what grounds did NBC reject it?

Have they ever rejected a political ad before? If they are trying to say that they don't take ads from out of state organizations, I'm sure that we can rebut that. I know that I've seen ads from shady (not that move-on is shady--by shady I mean Republican ads like the swift boat ads that were run by an organization that was created with a high-minded sounding group for the sole purpose of running a specific ad)

We should hammer channel 30!

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2. Some local media say it's not true

I think the Courant said she has no ties to Abramoff... though, somebody refuted that in a LTTE to the Courant the other day (Johnson had gotten money from DeLay's ARMPAC)

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3. how will we do that? Hammer Ch. 30, I mean