Dayton out with two new television ads
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 2:55 pm
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Mark Dayton, the DFL candidate for governor, released two new television ads on Wednesday. The first, titled “Dayton’s Values,” touts his family’s business, while the second, “Middle Class,” outlines some of the former senator’s key talking points on the middle class and job creation.
“I want to be governor to protect the middle class,” he says in the second ad. “I am the only candidate who will not raise taxes on the middle class.”
The Minnesota GOP took issue with that statement on Monday and released a statement and video relying on debate footage from his former opponent, Margaret Anderson Kelliher.
“Mark Dayton is practicing the ‘big lie’: the technique that when one lies, it should be so big that people disbelieve that someone would so outrageously misrepresent the truth,” GOP chair Tony Sutton said in a statement on Wednesday. “As the Democratic Speaker of the House, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, repeatedly noted, Mark Dayton will absolutely raise taxes on the middle class.”
Here is “Dayton Values”:
And “Middle Class”:
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Comment posted September 29, 2010 @ 3:07 pm
It is sort of pathetic and useless for one medium to report on a release in another. It probably is more pathetic when A. Cooper runs through a list of web posts on his TV show, but reporting on TV ads in web-based news outlets is pretty bad. I would prefer that you report on something Dayton said or did or his policies, rather than the release of mindless campaign adds.
Comment posted September 29, 2010 @ 3:15 pm
Thanks for your comment, Rob. Feel free to check out the plethora of other articles I’ve put out this week that focus on what people have said or done or policies they’ve proposed.
Comment posted September 29, 2010 @ 7:16 pm
Thanks for pointing out the other stories, Andy. That doesn’t excuse tele-reporting, however. You drew attention away from your stories with some content. You took up space where actual news could go. Mindless campaign ads already get too much attention and they have little information of real value.
Comment posted September 29, 2010 @ 8:27 pm
I appreciate the ads being posted here. Ads are an important part of a campaign, and I don’t always get to catch them on TV. Plus, I like knowing about them and seeing them right when they come out, to see what direction a campaign is going and to see what might impact public opinion. Sometimes I send them to friends–or even enemies– via email. THANKS!
Comment posted September 29, 2010 @ 11:29 pm
Please define “new” – the first commercial has been on-air since “hot tub timemachine”!
Comment posted September 30, 2010 @ 9:25 am
What Ginny said. Political ads drive campaigns and elections as much as, if not more than, specific statements of policy.
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