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Oklahoma's Inhofe on attack again in Senate race
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Sep 20, 2008 11:21am |
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| News Date | Saturday, September 20, 2008 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe has a reputation for tough campaign tactics, as his Democratic challenger is finding out the hard way.
An Inhofe ad being carried on Oklahoma television stations contains anti-gay overtones, showing a wedding cake topped by two plastic grooms and a photo of the Democratic candidate as a young man, curly haired and wearing a leather jacket.
Andrew Rice has responded with a commercial saying the attacks are "not true" and an indication Inhofe will do anything to keep his job, while avoiding talking about such issues as energy and the economy.
"He's trying to morph me into something I'm not. What he's doing is attacking my character," Rice said Wednesday of the ad, which calls Rice "too liberal for Oklahoma."
Inhofe said the ad is accurate. He pointed to news stories that Rice, before he became a state senator in 2006, founded a group that opposed a constitutional amendment to bar same-sex marriages.
Painting foes as liberals is nothing new for Inhofe, who takes credit for being the "most conservative member of the Senate."
Inhofe was elected to the Senate in 1994 after a nasty campaign in which a man wearing a Pinocchio mask was hired to heckle Inhofe's Democratic foe, then-Rep. Dave McCurdy, at public events.
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