rssCandidate Who Denounced Negative Ads Won’t Denounce Negative Ad
Friday, March 27, 2009 at 4:14 pm
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The Republican candidate in New York’s 20th Congressional District special election, Jim Tedisco — who loudly denounced negative ads in his race against Democrat Scott Murphy — isn’t denouncing a new ad from the National Republican Congressional Committee that shows a minute’s worth of terrorist mugshots while playing an audio clip of Murphy saying he opposes the death penalty for Osama bin Laden. It’s odd, because polls and anecdotal evidence suggest that slash-attacking third-party ads are hurting Tedisco, and the damage has been amplified by his high-profile promise to run a positive race.
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Comment posted March 28, 2009 @ 2:33 pm
Jim Tedisco is a gruff hard nosed politician and I do not say that as a negative. He however does not know how to draw the line and translate that to a conservative agenda in a positive manner. His ad's have been mud slinging with nothing but negatives about Scott Murphy, instead of defining how he would be better.
Tedisco came to the race with name recognition but in the conduct of his campaign demonstrated that he is in the mold of the National republicans who cannot present a positive agenda for the future much less show a willingness to reach out to Democrats to improve our future.
He has run a negative campaign and my guess is that will be the cause of his defeat.
Comment posted March 28, 2009 @ 9:33 pm
Jim Tedisco is a gruff hard nosed politician and I do not say that as a negative. He however does not know how to draw the line and translate that to a conservative agenda in a positive manner. His ad's have been mud slinging with nothing but negatives about Scott Murphy, instead of defining how he would be better.
Tedisco came to the race with name recognition but in the conduct of his campaign demonstrated that he is in the mold of the National republicans who cannot present a positive agenda for the future much less show a willingness to reach out to Democrats to improve our future.
He has run a negative campaign and my guess is that will be the cause of his defeat.
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