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GOP 'Contrast Ads' Aim to Fight Back After Foley Embarrassment
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 09, 2006 10:16pm |
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| Media | TV News - FOX News |
| News Date | Tuesday, October 10, 2006 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A sex scandal hasn't stopped Republican campaigns from digging up dirt on Democratic challengers to use in a barrage of negative ads scheduled to air just before the Nov. 7 election.
Not only is the National Republican Congressional Committee going ahead with its advertising strategy, but it is warning that Democrats now trying to take advantage of the charges against former Florida Rep. Mark Foley may be opening themselves up to tougher scrutiny.
Ed Patru, a spokesman for the NRCC, told FOXNews.com that Democrats who have tried to suggest that House GOP leaders were lax in their monitoring of Foley, could find themselves being questioned, perhaps about past votes on predator legislation or other child advocacy issues.
About 90 percent of the NRCC's advertising budget in the last few weeks of the campaign will go to "contrast ads," Patru said, and opposition research teams have been dispatched to dig into the pasts of Democratic candidates in tight races.
Madonna said it is ironic that after spending so much capital on their own opposition research, Republicans would be blindsided by their own sex scandal. But, he said, Republicans' best laid plans to improve their chances at the polls through negative ads at the district level may be all for naught.
"I tell you, if [negative advertising] is working," he said, "I don't know where." |
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