Awfully Fishy
It sticks to the facts and gets straight to the point. A solid, timely radio spot.
Sean Broom, who was writing a post about this at the same time adds:
The Coleman campaign and their Research and Online Media Director Michael Brodkorb have shown that they don’t have any interest in addressing the issues, supporting Norm Coleman’s stances on the issues, or promoting Norm Coleman’s experience in the Senate, and I was concerned that the Franken campaign wasn’t being aggressive enough in response. The amazing turnaround on this ad (overnight) and their tone over the last few weeks have put those concerns to bed. It’s game time.
The script after the jump.
ANNCR:
Here’s a story that’s awfully fishy.Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was just indicted on seven counts of corruption — lying about the gifts he’s received from an oil company.
Who else is getting reeled in to the scandal? Norm Coleman.
Coleman took three fishing trips to Alaska…each worth six thousand dollars…all paid for by Senator Stevens and his friends.
The Star Tribune writes that on these invitation only junkets, big fish like Coleman were, quote, the lure for captains of industry, defense contractors and lobbyists.
No wonder Coleman has voted to give billions in tax breaks to Big Oil.
Coleman took thirty thousand dollars in contributions from Senator Stevens and he’s also taken thousands more from the Alaskan oil executives convicted of bribing public officials and Coleman refused to return it.
Fishing trips to Alaska.
Lobbyists.
Big Oil.
Greed.
Minnesota shouldn’t let Norm Coleman off the hook on this one.
MDE=Michael’s Dishonest Excrement
What’s most amazing about this post is that Coleman’s campaign releases a new issue ad focused on his record in the U.S. Senate helping secure more money for the prevention of childhood cancer and Aaron attack’s the ad. He even mocked the mother of a child with cancer.
Seriously, Michael, the best you can do for the Republican party today is harp on an ill-chosen, and ultimately and quickly corrected, adjective?
Can’t you explain that Norm is only half bought-and-paid-for since he’s giving half the money back?
And since he IS giving half the money back…what happened to the big stand on principles that Ted is innocent until proven guilty?
make that “principles” in para three