Massey-backed GOP candidate Maynard drops racially-tinged ad in W.Va.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Spike Maynard, the Republican challenger to Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall in West Virginia's coal-rich Third Congressional District, is out with a new ad that seeks to tie Rahall to the outsourcing of energy jobs to China.

"It's on our jeans, even children's toys: 'Made in China.' As part of the Obama-Pelosi team, Rahall voted for a bill that led to billions in tax breaks for foreign companies creating Chinese jobs," the ad's narrator reads over a questionably chosen musical track. "Rahall's vote helped foreign companies create Chinese jobs making windmills. With skyrocketing unemployment, only a politician who's been in Washington for 34 years would vote to help foreign companies making Chinese windmills."

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Maynard was notoriously involved in a Big Coal scandal in 2008 when pictures of him with Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship in Monaco forced him to recuse himself from a case concerning a settlement between the coal giant and a competitor. Massey energy owns the site where 29 coal miners died in an explosion earlier this year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/27/spike-maynard-china-ad_n_740487.html

Pretty awful. No wonder Palin has endorsed him:
If you want to see it for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9NGXfB7PxA

[GodlessBiker]

1. I don't find this racially-tinged. How should one protest legislation which helps job growth in ...

China through tax breaks here in the US?