Paulsen releases first television ad: ‘Kids’
Thursday, September 09, 2010 at 12:00 pm
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Rep. Erik Paulsen released his first television ad of the 2010 campaign cycle on Thursday. The ad, titled “Kids,” highlights Paulsen’s math skills and features his four daughters. “Balancing the budget can be achieved by spending less,” he says. The ad is also the third by Minnesota Republicans this cycle to feature children as the focus: GOP-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer put his kids front and center in his first ad, and MN Forward’s new ad attacking DFLer Mark Dayton uses children as well.
“There is definitely a spending problem in Washington, and it starts in Congressman Erik Paulsen’s own office,” said Paulsen’s opponent, DFLer Jim Meffert, in response to the ad. “Last year he spent $413,996 taxpayer dollars on glossy mail pieces and phone calls to voters in our district, making him the third highest spender in the U.S. House on franked mail.”
Here’s Paulsen’s first ad:
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Comment posted September 9, 2010 @ 8:26 pm
Apparently, it’s too hard to get the message to the public that a Nation-State, especially the most prosperous and powerful in the world, does not plan a budget like a family. Even families would be operating at a deficit if they balanced their income with their total liabilities, including their total mortgage plus interest. The US got where it is today because of deficit spending at critical points in its history, e.g. the Great Depression, WWII, the Great Society and even Reagan’s period of office. It’s just what is required now, in greater amounts, if the country’s economy is going to get on its feet again.
I recall Dick Cheney saying “deficits don’t matter.” That was as the US was running up a $3 trillion war debt for a godforsaken war in Iraq. Paulsen didn’t mind then. It’s only when tax breaks for millionaires are up for grabs and spending money to actually do some good that he’s opposed.
Comment posted September 11, 2010 @ 3:59 am
Hey Eric, you lost me in all the details. You want to vague that up for me? Just a bit of generalization will do. Something simplistic and mindless, like the voters this ad will appeal to.
If you want to be taken seriously, you have to show some substance.
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