Chamber's Anti-Sestak Ads Back On Pittsburgh TV
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has convinced two Pittsburgh-area television stations to resume running ads it wanted to air attacking the voting record of U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate. The stations pulled the ad Wednesday after an attorney for Sestak's campaign complained that it was inaccurate.
Chamber's Anti-Sestak Ads Back On Pittsburgh TV
Chris Brennan
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has convinced two Pittsburgh-area television stations to resume running ads it wanted to air attacking the voting record of U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate. The stations pulled the ad Wednesday after an attorney for Sestak's campaign complained that it was inaccurate.
At issue: The ad claims Sestak voted with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 100 percent of the time when his record is actually 97 percent. Bill Miller, vice president for political affairs at the Chamber, today said the ad was citing "votes of substance" on major issues like health care reform and not procedural votes. Miller derided Sestak's attempt to kill the ad, which was pulled from the air for one day, a "ludicrous" act of "desperation."
"We felt very strongly that in the 111th congress on the votes we made the case factually that Joe Sestak voted with Nancy Pelosi 100 percent of the time," Miller said. "I find it most amusing that the Sestak campaign would try to challenge that by saying the congressman only voted with Nancy Pelosi 97 percent of the time."
Sestak's campaign, which has also asked television stations in Harrisburg, Scranton and Johnstown to stop airing the ad, yesterday said it was "full of false and misleading and deceptive statements" and called the Chamber "a wealthy and ultra-conservative interest group from outside Pennsylvania."
You can see the ad and read Toomey's response to Sestak's efforts in this post from yesterday.
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Sleazebag is an uber-liberal nut-job who believes in entitlements, higher taxes and erstricting your constitutional freedoms, such as Speech and 2nd Amendment rights. Shouldn't be elected dog-catcher!— Mike S.- Comment removed.
- So, the fact is that the ad doesn't have to be accurate as long as it carries an inflammatory message. Sounds like a Republican ad.— HandNik
Rauol Duke, Cutting taxes increases federal income! The less money citizens are taxed the more $ flows through the economy the federal government can tax the flowing $ multiple times increasing their income. During times of high taxes people who have $ save, sit on and hide their $ so less money flows in the economy decreasing the number of times receives tax $ Decreasing government revenue. It’s called economics! Balancing the budget is the problem with the federal government.— AuH20- Comment removed.
"... only voted with Nancy Pelosi 97 percent of the time." Enough said.- Companies are sitting on $ reserves because they don’t know what is coming taxes and regulations. The more incentives (by lower taxes) business has to spend the more they will spend. All Companies just like All people want to keep as much of their $. Businesses do not exist to give people jobs they exist to make $. Jobs are a result of business making $. I do know Economics especially Keynesianism. It doesn’t work!— AuH20
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- Nice Logic Genius! Question?? Do politicians (regardless of party) care more about helping people or GETTING REELECTED? Pea brained liberals like you think that political GREED is some how more ethical than greed in the private sector that the Govt abuses with self serving legislation.— AuH20
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- Obama said if Congress passed the economic stimulus bill, "we would have unemployment at 8 percent and no higher if we don’t pass it may reach 10%”. UE is currently at 9.5% and will reach over 10% AGAIN. Face it his economic policies are a complete failure, and the markets know it! Business will sit on their money until he is out of office.— AuH20
- AuH20 - Businesses have been sitting on record profits in cash among Fortune 500 and 1000 companies that are traded the NYSE since 2005. Corporations are much less worried about the tax increases nearly as much as a low growth environment especially in the US and Europe. That is why capital investment has really dipped. If you actually read and didn't listen to sound bytes on Fox News, this kind of fiscal crisis takes years to resolve. NBER research paper and others have shown that a fiscal crisis that initially was sparked with Lehman Brothers' collapse typically take several years to resolve it. That was typically for a single country that could rely upon debasing its currency, boosting its exports, and generally reforming their banks & cleaning up the bad loans. Even if the US could do all of those things or had the willingness to do them, it would take years to resolve this. Neither political party had the conviction to tell voters anything near the truth. At best, we will have a period of low growth, high unemployment, and an erratic stock market for at least the next 2-3 years.— MG77
- How quick Sestak received a pass on his " I was offered a job by the Obama Admin to drop out of the race" statement. This person went thru the naval academy, I was under the impression that honor and duty are taught there, not how to lie and mislead.— junethe4th
- Toomey is Santorum-lite.— RightWingHypocrite
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