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No Vested Interest

(5,166 posts)
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 05:52 PM Jan 2017

TV ads in SW Ohio telling viewers to call their Senators,

tell Senators Portman & Brown to vote for Trump cabinet nominees.

Sessions was one cabinet nominee mentioned; not sure if the other was DeVos or Tillerson. -(poor memory- it was a few days ago.
Have any other Ohioans or residents of other states seen these ads?
Have other Cabinet nominees been mentioned in similar ads?

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CincyDem

(6,353 posts)
1. I've seen Sessions and DeVos in Cincinnati.
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 05:54 PM
Jan 2017


Cheap and cheesy traditional campaign ads. Photographs with voice over...Sessions as a tireless advocate for civil rights...DeVos as a successful professional with a long standing interest in the education of future generations.

Sickening.

I don't remember there being cabinet post campaigns in the past. Maybe me but this seems like a new tactic from the White House Media Department.

No Vested Interest

(5,166 posts)
4. That's why these ads stood out for me - I've never seen ads promoting
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 05:59 PM
Jan 2017

Cabinet picks before either.
I wonder if they're being run in other states as well.
The ads listed who paid for them, but-again- my memory fails me at this minute. (Was it Koch interests?)

msongs

(67,395 posts)
6. republicans want to win. other political parties could try this sort of thing now and then too nt
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 06:01 PM
Jan 2017

irisblue

(32,969 posts)
2. some DUer from Colorado posted aboyt it last week.
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 05:54 PM
Jan 2017

So, off to write to Portman & call Brown. Portman will igno re the check out of me.

No Vested Interest

(5,166 posts)
5. Were ads run in Ohio as well, or did the DU poster from CO
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 06:01 PM
Jan 2017

Last edited Mon Jan 30, 2017, 06:43 PM - Edit history (1)

refer to the Ohio ads?

irisblue

(32,969 posts)
10. both states. I bet the reps are laying groundwork for permanent campaigns
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 06:42 PM
Jan 2017

Since Brown is up next year, they won't stop.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
12. Saw one a few weeks ago
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 06:55 PM
Jan 2017

In Missouri. I immediately emailed both of my Senators and asked them to vote against all the nominees.

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
14. Haven't seen these ads in the Cleveland area
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 04:34 PM
Jan 2017

My husband watches the local news on NBC, CBS, and Fox, so maybe we aren't being targeted? Given how we were bombarded with the anti-Strickland crap for more than a year, I'm amazed that we are being overlooked in the campaign to bring Mr. Racist and Ms. Moron to the cabinet.

No Vested Interest

(5,166 posts)
15. New TV ad today - this one from AARP, asking for viewers to contact
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 03:32 AM
Feb 2017

Senators re Social Security.

This is a new phenomenon - TV ads for political purpose outside the election season.
Perhaps they have a lot cash left over from the election season.

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