Big headline above the fold today
Johnson Attack on Ad Misfires with a smaller headline below of:
Murphy Commercial is Rooted in FactA few days ago, I posted on DU about 24 year Congresswoman Nancy Johnson (R) becoming unhinged here in CT - she had a hissy fit over a truthful negative ad her opponent ran, when she herself has been running the most negative campaign in CT history. She even held a press conference to demand that her opponent stop running this naughty ad...
(see my post here)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2377730&mesg_id=2377730The Courant is, by far, the biggest paper in CT. They have a circulation of over 300,000, and the next biggest paper in CT is around 100K.
Some snippets from the article:
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At an emotional news conference in the state Capitol this week, U.S. Rep. Nancy Johnson took what many veteran campaign strategists would consider a dangerous political step.
Johnson, a 24-year Republican incumbent, is in the middle of a bruising re-election battle against Democratic state Sen. Chris Murphy, a race that is on its way to becoming one of the most expensive - and nasty - in state history. Quite beyond their differences over issues such as Iraq and health care, the core drama in the 5th Congressional District contest has been a lively exchange of negative political ads by both sides, an intensity that reflects the district's importance in determining whether the Democrats seize control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Last October, McCall-Goldie learned that similar legislation had just been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Within a week she e-mailed Johnson, asking her to co-sponsor the bill, hoping that Johnson's leadership of the powerful subcommittee on health would make a difference. But McCall-Goldie says that she became increasingly frustrated as months went by and she received no response.
"Nancy Johnson was my congresswoman," McCall-Goldie says. "I had a very severe and expensive medical condition with my son.
So I asked for Johnson's help, and she never replied. Never. After a while I realized I should start keeping a record, so I saved all the dates that I called her and got no reply." <snip>
"I had to hunt Nancy Johnson down in a public place, and then do you know what she told me?" McCall-Goldie says. "
My congresswoman told me that she couldn't help me because she didn't believe in sponsoring bills that would help just a few people, and that she wasn't in the business of telling insurance companies what to do."a lot more at:
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-nastyads.artoct14,0,3408195.story?coll=hc-headlines-homeI would take that last line & compare it to how much Johnson has received from Aetna, United Health, CIGNA, etc...
http://www.murphyforcongress.org/