Half-million dollar ad buy targets Emmer
Tuesday, July 06, 2010 at 3:57 pm
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A progressive interest group is buying $500,000 worth of television ads to try to tie GOP-endorsed candidate for governor Tom Emmer to Gov. Tim Pawlenty. The Alliance for a Better Minnesota Action Fund says the ads will begin on Tuesday and will also be launched online as well.
“We need a leader who will fight for us,” said Denise Cardinal, Executive Director of Alliance for a Better Minnesota Action Fund. “Voters need to know that Tom Emmer is just like Tim Pawlenty, who sides with the big corporate special interests over working families. Emmer’s record shows he’s not on our side.”
The ad is the largest by an outside group so far this cycle. The National Organization for Marriage spent $200,000 earlier this summer for ads targeting the DFL and Independence Party candidates for their stance on marriage equality for same-sex couples.
Here’s the new ad:
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Comment posted July 8, 2010 @ 8:46 am
Will they get into the contest in the south metro where DFL delegates failed to realize they were endorsing a former republican to face Kline? This has to be the slickest Kline strategy yet, to take a rising star from the party and convince him to “convert” to the DFL and then run a fake campaign. The DFL was so happy to have an “early” candidate that they forgave him his early comments about how immigrants were “taking out jobs.”
The DFL has been totally distracted and duped, again, and even though it’s the only seriously contested primary other than governor the main stream media is ignoring it. I mean, come on, I don’t expect the bloggers to dig up the dirt in this guy’s background, but where are the real reporters?
It’s no wonder the Supreme Court is opening the way for outside interests to run ads.
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