DeWhine goes negative early

[Schmajo]

7/15/06
http://www.dispatch.com/news/news.php?story=dispatch/2006/07/15/20060715-E1-04.html

“Using vivid images of smoke pouring from one of the towers of the World Trade Center, Republican Sen. Mike DeWine unleashed a commercial yesterday that charges Democratic challenger Sherrod Brown with casting votes in Congress that could have weakened America’s response to terrorism.

The TV commercial, which also flashed images of the 19 hijackers who took part in the Sept. 11 attack, is an apparent effort by the DeWine campaign to jar Ohio voters into remembering the terrorist attack in New York and suburban Washington and to convince them that the senator will support tougher anti-terrorism measures than Brown, a congressman from Avon.
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Dennis Eckart, a former Democratic congressman from Cleveland, said, ‘It’s July 15. Mark the date. Today, Mike DeWine acknowledges he is trailing Sherrod Brown in the race for the Senate. Incumbents with leads don’t selectively attack challengers unless they believe they are on the losing end of the voters’ attentions.’
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[OhioBlue]

1. Sounds like DeWine is a liar

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Citing votes that Brown has cast throughout his 13 years in the House, the commercial asserts that he voted to "slash" spending for national intelligence

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But the DeWine commercial fails to mention that Brown in 1993 and 1994 voted for the overall intelligence bills after the amendments he supported failed. Brown also voted in favor of the intelligence bills in 2005 and 2004, and supported the 2004 creation of the National Intelligence Agency, which supervises the CIA and every other intelligence agency.

Four times between 1996 and 1999, the House approved the annual intelligence bills with voice votes, in which individual tallies are not recorded. In 1995 and 2003, Brown voted against the final version of the annual intelligence bills.

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Hmm... Sounds like Sherrod actually does his homework and votes against certain bills if they contain something he doesn't agree with, hardly sounds like Sherrod has spent 13 years voting to "slash" spending.

But Of course, what can we expect from an ethically challenged, rubber stamp republican.

[geiger]

2. I got a rapid response email

from John Ryan, but haven't seen any official tv or newspaper response yet. Has anyone else?

[BillORightsMan]

3. more DeWine

at AMERICAblog


by John in DC - 7/15/2006 11:44:00 AM

Funny, I don't think 3,000 people gave their lives on September 11 for the Republican party. Dewine should either take the new ad down, or Democrats should run ads asking Dewine where Osama bin Laden is.
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Interestingly, just yesterday the Republicans were freaking out because Democrats were supposedly abusing the suffering of Americans in the war on terror because a Democratic ad showed photos of the flag-draped coffins to show an example of the "wrong direction" our country was head in. Let me share a little of what the Republicans said just yesterday about the kind of advertising they're now using in the Senate races:

Go to the link to read the hypocrital comments.



Have I mentioned just how much I hate these people yet?


Sherrod Brown for US Senate
btw Sherrod has the entire dogpatch article on his site.

[VolcanoJen]

4. These ads were all over the morning political shows Sunday

I was ripping my hair out. It's so nauseating the way these assholes just bring it on, you know?

I'm telling you, I'm not convinced it's going to work this time. People are opening their eyes.