The House Majority PAC is flexing a little muscle in Congressional District 2 with a new TV ad blasting Republican Martha McSally.
UPDATE: McSally has issued a statement regarding the TV ad:
The ad being run by Ron Barber’s Washington funders is untrue and smacks of sexism. First Ron Barber says Republicans are “a bunch of white guys” and now he is using a tired, old stereotype to attack me. It’s overt sexism and the kind of negativity I’ve been dealing with and fought against my entire military career. Besides, I was too busy shooting Al Qaeda with a 30 millimeter and eating at deployed chow halls to spend too much time in the kitchen. I will always keep our promise to seniors on Social Security and Medicare and any attempt to allege otherwise is false and misleading. The ad is simply outrageous and Ron Barber needs to join me in calling for this ad to be taken off the air.
The ad is launching one day after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released a poll showing that Barber was leading McSally by 14 percentage points.
Andy Stone, a spokesman for the House Majority PAC, tells The Range that the House Majority PAC is spending $150,000 to run the ad over the next week.
As National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Daniel Scarpinato said yesterday, it seems odd that the House Majority PAC would be spending a lot of money in CD2 if Barber had such a large lead. We understand that the DCCC is also reserving time in CD2.
But Stone said the political committee is spending the money to ward off future support for McSally by third-party groups as they begin to move their money from supporting a flailing Romney campaign to shoring up efforts to win the Senate and hang onto a majority in the House of Representatives.
In other CD2 news: McSally picked up the endorsement of Republican Jim Kolbe, the former congressman who represented the area for 11 terms before retiring in 2006.
“I’m enthusiastic about the prospect of Martha McSally representing Arizona’s Second District in Congress,” said Kolbe in a statement. “At a time when Congress is so divided, we need someone who understands what it takes to get things done. Martha has that leadership experience; her life has always been about bringing people together to solve complex problems like the ones our nation faces today. She’ll do a great job looking after our interests in Congress, and I am proud to endorse her. She deserves the support of all of us.”
A Kolbe endorsement isn’t a given for Republican congressional candidates in Southern Arizona. Despite many entreaties from supporters of Jesse Kelly in 2010 and earlier this year in the special election, Kolbe did not endorse the Tea Party Republican candidate.
Kolbe also criticized the House Majority PAC ad:
At a time when the fiscal crisis facing taxpayers and our government has never been worse it is simply wrong for Congressman Barber and his Washington backers to be running attack ads against Martha McSally that rely on a decades old gender stereotype of keeping women in the kitchen; Martha McSally has spent a lifetime fighting those stereotypes. The spreading red ink of a growing deficit that the next Congress will have to confront requires thoughtful ideas and serious discussion—not scare tactics or cheap shots that have no basis in fact. Congressman Barber should demand that the Democrat leadership in Congress take these ads off the air.
This article appears in Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2012.
Why not air-dropped leaflets from an MV-22 Osprey (unit cost: $69.3 million)? That’s how USA does it in Afghanistan:
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/…
The caption of which, in part, shows wicked irony: “…The leaflets are intended to inform Afghan farmers about Peace and National Unity Week.”
Freedumb
The media pit bull from the DNC attacks anyone and every one with a Republican label. One of the many pacs out there cluttering up the air waves with misinformation so the gullible will vote for another socialist(democrat).
For those too obtuse (or glued to the faux-noise republican lie and spin machine):
“Democratic socialism is a political philosophy and social movement that rejects centralized, elitist or authoritarian means of transitioning from capitalism to socialism. Democratic socialism advocates for the immediate creation of decentralised economic democracy from the grassroots level, undertaken by and for the working class itself.”
“A socialist economic system would consist of an organization of production to directly satisfy economic demands and human needs, so that goods and services would be produced directly for use instead of for private profit driven by the accumulation of capital. Accounting would be based on physical quantities, a common physical magnitude, or a direct measure of labour-time in place of financial calculation. Distribution of output would be based on the principle of individual contribution.”
Satisfying Human Needs — Oh, the HORROR!!!
At least know what you’re “opposing”, nimrod!
If McSally had the “leadership” ability, that Kolbe touts, it apparently was not identified by her superiors in the U.S. Air Force. She retired as a Colonel not as a General. In case one forgets, Arizona has another one of those sitting in the Senate, for more than a quarter century, with little accomplishment.
Though I appreciate her service, and the sexism she endured in order to serve, my Republican buddies don’t do it with a clever, even useful trope like this ad. They actually just do it, and are the kind she probably encountered in the military, not Democrats. I think more books, and less bullets, would have served her better, and she would probably be a Democrat.
Socialism is evil?
Well, by any measurement of the well-being of its citizens, it is the socialist nations like Norway, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Canada, and New Zealand that are almost always in the top ten.
Their brand of socialism is an effective, efficient, and prosperous collaboration between private enterprise and government.
Might be a model worth our adopting?
The House Majority Pac is disingenious and even their name is a lie. The House Majority is and will continue to be Republican. This group obviously is not. Lying in political ads is protected free speech. The Supreme Court says so. Furthermore given the size of the war chest extorted from Unions and Hollywood some sponge is soaking up a lot of money getting the message out. Their videos are patheticlly written and produced in some amateur’s basement. The result is ineffective if not laughable ads, while TV Managements say ‘cha-ching’ and ‘thank you very much.’