This one is for Terry Anderson

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In her 2004 bid for a second term in the Ohio Senate, Padgett was challenged by Democratic Terry Anderson of Athens, Ohio, who in the 1980s had been held hostage by Islamic radicals in Lebanon. During her race against Terry Anderson, Padgett accused Anderson of being a member of the "Blame America crowd", and campaign fliers showed a photograph of Anderson in a meeting with a leader of Hezbollah. In response, Anderson said, "He and his brothers were the ones who kidnapped me, chained me, blindfolded me and beat me. My political opponent uses a picture of that interview to try to win an election." <1>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Padgett


Congressional candidate Joy Padgett held an angry conference call today with reporters to denounce a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ad that says she was investigated by Ohio's Inspector General for abusing her former position as head of Ohio's Office of Appalachia to help her own business.

The ad fails to mention the investigation exonerated her, and Padgett said her lawyers would ask television stations to stop running it.

"This is an absolutely slanderous commercial," said Padgett, who is running against Democrat Zack Space for the congressional seat vacated by disgraced GOP congressman Bob Ney. "It absolutely misleads the voters."

The DCCC doesn't plan to pull the ad off the air, despite a cease and desist letter it received yesterday from Padgett, said spokeswoman Adrienne Elrod.

"We stand by our ad 100 percent," Elrod said. "The ad speaks for itself."

http://www.cleveland.com/weblogs/openers/index.ssf?/mtl..

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1. typically R bullshit

okay, create a strawman argument on purpose, lure people into reacting, and then issue a press conference. great.

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2. Padgett follows lead of her patron in dirty, misleading campaign attacks

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Dirty Joy is at it again.

Ohio Sen. Joy Padgett, who won that seat two years ago in part by attacking me for being "soft on terrorism," and her bear-leaders in Washington, have clearly decided that what works, works. They are now spending $1 million a month trying to label her Democratic opponent for Ohio's 18th District congressional seat, Zack Space - surprise, surprise - soft on terrorism.

It's a stretch, admittedly. Space has absolutely nothing on his record, in his lengthy community service, or in any position he has taken that would warrant such a label. But then, neither did I. That didn't matter to Joy then, and it doesn't now. If you can tell a big enough lie often enough, maybe somebody will believe it.

And that's the real issue. Joy is desperate to distract voters from her recent million-dollar personal bankruptcy filing, her close connection with Ohio's highly unpopular Gov. Bob Taft and his failed policies, and most especially, her close relationship with U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, whose seat she is trying to fill, and who pled guilty to federal corruption charges after months of denials (and open support in those denials by Joy).

Joy's campaign tactics again show her moral, as well as financial, bankruptcy. She cares nothing for the truth, and obviously has nothing but contempt for the voters if she expects them to keep swallowing this bull.

Bob Ney is an admitted liar and a thief. Do the residents of Ohio really want another liar to replace him? Thankfully, the smell of corruption in Columbus and Washington is so strong that even the biggest lies can't cover it up. Zack Space, who is not a professional politician and vows he will put his constituents ahead of any special interests, remains at least 10 points ahead of Joy Padgett in this congressional race, with just a month to go.

Sometimes, good guys do win.

Terry Anderson

River Road

Athens
http://athensnews.com/index.php?action=viewarticle§ion=opinion&story_id=26112