Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) thanks voters for their participation on Election Day 2014.
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  • Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) thanks voters for their participation on Election Day 2014.

By Alison Dorf

At her election-night party Tuesday evening, Republican congressional candidate Martha McSally said she was proud of her campaign.

McSally was trailing Democratic incumbent Congressman Ron Barber by about 4 percentage points with an unknown number of votes left to count. McSally complained that she had faced a barrage of attack ads during her campaign that were ridiculous and inaccurate.

“The challenge has been again, countering the lying attack ads that are trying to turn me into something that I’m not in order to instill fear in the voters,” McSally said. “So we’ve had to spend time to make sure that people know exactly who I am, correct the record, and you know, that’ll take time and effort.”

McSally said her campaign did everything possible to get her message out and election night was the time to celebrate the effort and the journey of the campaign.

“As a challenger, you’re having to make a case as to why an incumbent should be replaced,” McSally said. “I can look myself in the mirror and say we did that with integrity and we did everything we could to get our message out.”

If she does not win the election, McSally said she does not yet know her next step.

“I can’t even think about that right now,” McSally said. “We’ll see what happens.”

This article appears in Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2014.

9 replies on “Republican Congressional Candidate Martha McSally: “We Did Everything We Could To Get Our Message Out””

  1. Money talks, Martha. Especially when it’s not yours and you’re paid to parrot whatever the Koch Brothers tell you to.

  3. The dark money ads in this race were particularly disturbing. I am proud of Barber for keeping his attack ads on the actual candidate’s words and positions, rather than the awful ones which the other side ran. If McSally is proud of those dark money ads, she really doesn’t get it.

  4. Perhaps the more important lesson to be learned is that down here in Baja AZ we want our representatives in Congress to be part of our state and to have a commitment to it over time. Flying in on a wing and a prayer isn’t enough. This race was not gender based either. Ron was a better feminist than Martha. Perhaps there is another better career out there for her.

  7. I served with Martha in Germany and in Saudi – she is smart, hard working, and as honorable as anyone I know. I don’t know Barber – but cannot imagine anyone better suited than Martha to serve the people of Arizona. The election is over – I think most of us hope and expect the smear campaigns will stop. enough already.

  8. Thank you Rand. I have heard the same about her, but do not know her yet.

    Can’t wait to see if she can replace him. The last conservative in this seat was before Jim Kolbe.

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