GOP refuses to pull its TV ads that call Brown a tax deadbeat

[Algorem]

Ohio says claim is untrue: Brown campaign paid bill years ago

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1161255468153120.xml&coll=2

Thursday, October 19, 2006
Stephen Koff
Plain Dealer Bureau Chief

Washington- The Republican Party last night refused to cancel commercials that claim Sherrod Brown was a longtime tax scofflaw - even though the state of Ohio says the ad's claim is untrue.

Brown, the Democrat running against incumbent Mike DeWine, paid the tax bill years ago, soon after receiving a tax lien, according to newly released records from the Brown campaign and authenticated by the state.

But the Republican National Committee, supporting DeWine's reelection bid, is running commercials saying that Brown "didn't pay his unemployment taxes for 13 years."

DeWine ran his own commercial all day Wednesday with a DeWine family friend saying that Brown didn't pay "an outstanding tax bill for 12 years." ...

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/

http://www.cleveland.com/

http://www.cleveland.com/open/

[BootinUp]

1. Desperation. I would bet the news media reports

the truth this time.

[gWbush is Mabus]

2. how much do u want to bet?

[BootinUp]

3. I don't live there, who will be the judge? ;-)

What do you suggest for a wager?

[sam sarrha]

4. sue them, dont let them get away with this.. it needs to end here ,

lying in the media needs to be an interstate crime.. jail time

[cosmicdot]

8. I tend to agree

we could use a landmark libel/slander case


of course, the GOP let it be known it was going to dig up 'dirt'

In a Pivotal Year, GOP Plans to Get Personal
Millions to Go to Digging Up Dirt on Democrats
By Jim VandeHei and Chris Cillizza
The Washington Post

Sunday 10 September 2006

Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues and local controversies, GOP officials said.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, which this year dispatched a half-dozen operatives to comb through tax, court and other records looking for damaging information on Democratic candidates, plans to spend more than 90 percent of its $50 million-plus advertising budget on what officials described as negative ads. ~snip~

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091106E.shtml

edited to add direct link to the Plain Dealer article
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1161255468153120.xml&coll=2

[Gman]

5. I think the best way to respond to something like this

is to run an ad saying, "DeWinehas a messy desk... nyaaaa... nyaaaa... nyaaa..."

Make fun of them and keep it upbeat at this point. That emphasizes how desperate they are.

[BootinUp]

7. LOL, never heard of that straterrrgy b4. n/t

[DemoTex]

6. Über-slime Charles Taylor (R-NC11) using same tactics against Shuler (D).

Taylor (R-Hell) accused Heath Shuler (D-Brevard, NC) of being a tax dead-beat. Taylor also used copyrighted material in a campaign advertisement. Taylor is obviously desperate.

http://dwb.newsobserver.com/politics/ncwire_politics/story/3015557p-9435226c.html

http://www.taylorsucks.org/


Charles Taylor (L)