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Perry’s Texas Ad Misstep
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| Last Edited | TX DEM Sep 14, 2010 04:57pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, September 14, 2010 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn’t getting the press he likely expected after Sunday’s release of his first fall re-election campaign ad.
The 30-second spot, “Texas: Open for Business,” features the Repubican governor touring three small businesses along with shots of two storefronts in Austin’s trendy South Congress neighborhood. In the ad, Perry touts the Lone Star state’s job numbers (July unemployment: 8.2%, more than a full percentage point below the 9.5% national average that month). But representatives for the two storefronts featured in the ad said they don’t plan to vote for the governor in November. They also said they weren’t told their businesses would be featured in a Perry ad, as first reported by Burnt Orange Report, a Texas state politics blog.
“I don’t support Rick Perry. Nor does the store,” said Peg McCoy, owner of Farm to Market Grocery, who said she has asked the campaign to stop using the ad.
“They were filmed on a public sidewalk,” Perry spokesman Mark Miner countered.
Perry, running for his third full term, took over the governor’s mansion in 2000 his predecessor, George W. Bush, left for the White House. Perry maintains a single-digit lead over his Democratic opponent, Houston Mayor Bill White, in most polls.
The campaign’s media consultant checked with both firms before filming their front doors, Miner said. In one shot, Avenue Barber Shop employee Jeremy Sheffield flips a “closed” sign to “open.”
Sheffield, 31 years old, said he allowed someone from Perry’s office to shoot video early one Saturday morning, but he was not told it was for a campaign spot.
“I didn’t put two and two together,” he said.
No word yet on the hardware store, diner and software office that Perry walks through the ad. We’ll keep you posted. |
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