Narrator: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says Ed Martin is unfit for office. And Martin is running a campaign of pure hatred and dishonesty.
The Kansas City Star says Martin was a disaster as Governor Matt Blunt’s chief of staff. And Martin disregards truth, evidence, and reality.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics called Martin one of the most corrupt politicians in America. And while martin might not want to advertise that we thought voters deserved to know.
[paid for by Missourians for Koster, Gary Mallory, Treasurer]
Announcer: Peter Kinder misused tax dollars on his personal lifestyle…staying at luxury hotels.
[329 nights in a luxury hotel on taxpayers’ dollars]
He dropped out of the governor’s race amidst allegations of aggressive behavior towards a stripper.
[Regular at east St. Louis strip clubs, spending $200 a visit]
A career politician, Kinder has been pocketing gifts from lobbyists for twenty years.
[Kinder pockets thousands from lobbyists every year]
Vote for a true fiscal conservative, Susan Montee. As State Auditor she uncovered wasteful spending and saved taxpayers millions. Susan Montee, Lieutenant Governor.
Anyone think this one will air on television and cable?
Susan Montee, the Democratic party candidate for Lieutenant Governor, just released her first general election campaign television ad:
Announcer: Susan Montee.
Susan Montee (D): My father was a Marine, missing in action in Vietnam. My childhood shaped me to be an advocate for veterans and their families, the way our Lieutenant Governor is supposed to be. When they’re done with their service our soldiers should know they a home, quality health care, and a job. Stand with me and I will make sure our veterans get everything they earn and deserve.
Announcer: Susan Montee, Lieutenant Governor.
Now, we just have wait for Peter Kinder’s (r) ad assault to start. When the republican sugar daddies come through with the campaign contribution cash.
A new ad from Claire McCaskill’s (D) campaign, now that Todd Akin is in for the haul to November:
Announcer: Todd Akin, in his own words.
On March eighteenth, two thousand eleven Todd Akin said he didn’t like Social Security. On September third, two thousand eleven Todd Akin said Medicare was unconstitutional, on March sixteenth Akin said he wants to abolish the minimum wage, on April twenty-first said he would eliminate student loans, and on August nineteenth Todd Akin said only some rapes are legitimate.
What will he say next?
Claire McCaskill (D): I’m Claire McCaskill and I approve this message.
Attorney General Chris Koster’s (D) campaign has released his first ad:
Attorney General Chris Koster (D): Being a prosecutor is about conviction. The ones you get and the one you live by. If you live in the State of Missouri this office will protect you. And if you hurt the people of Missouri this office will prosecute you.
I’ve prosecuted over a hundred murder cases and won thousands of convictions. My opponent has never even had a jury trial or put even one criminal behind bars.
And Missouri’s top law enforcement job isn’t where beginners go to learn.
Announcer: Attorney General Chris Koster, all prosecutor, no politics.
Ooh, that left a mark, Ed.
Friends, that is one damn fine political ad, no matter what your view of the candidate.
A new ad from Obama/Biden 2012, running in Iowa, Nevada, Virginia, and Ohio:
President Obama: I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message.
Narrator: Mitt Romney, he won’t reveal what’s in his taxes and he won’t tell you what he’d do to yours. To pay for huge new tax breaks for millionaires like him…
[The Wall Street Journal, 8/1/12, Study: Romney’s Tax Plan Hits Middle Class]
… Romney would have to raise taxes on the middle class. Two thousand dollars for a family with children…
[“taxpayers with children who make less than $200,000 would pay, on average, $2,000 more in taxes”]
…says a non-partisan report. You could lose the deduction for your home mortgage, college tuition, health care.
Senator Claire McCaskill (D): I’ve never been so proud to be ranked fiftieth. All senators are ranked, one to a hundred, liberal to conservative. You’re lookin’ at number fifty. How did I get there? Missouri style independence. Votes to cap federal spending, against more regulations, and eliminating earmarks. I work across the aisle and I don’t think compromise is a dirty word. That’s how we can solve problems for your family.
I’m Claire McCaskill and I approve this message because right in the middle is right for Missouri. Number fifty.
We wrote about the National Journal “rankings” back in February:
Forget for a moment that the National Journal‘s definition of what constitutes liberal or conservative is useless in our presently skewed political environment. If the obstructionist opposition party is populated by extremist right wingnuts you’re not a “moderate” when your party’s extreme left is labeled as the likes of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D) and you’re on the other end….
….In our present environment a true moderate would be in the middle of their own party, not to the right of it.
This is probably why I’ll never find work in a U.S. Senate campaign. I would have produced a “vote for Claire, Todd Akin is batshit crazy” commercial. Think about the earned media after that. The free replays would reach astronomical numbers.
And there’s the line, maybe attributable to LBJ, “I don’t want to call my opponent a [fill in the blank], I just want to hear him deny it.”
Oh, and I’ll be voting for Claire McCaskill (D). Todd Akin (r) is batshit crazy.
….In a rare moment of agreement, Akin’s campaign did not dispute the facts posted on the site, but did say it believed the positions McCaskill’s campaign is highlighting are sound ones and make Akin attractive to voters – and that he’s happy to come across as out of the mainstream….
Things do certainly change in a republican campaign in five days. It’s as if it’s a requirement for republicans to do so.
The newest attack ad from Todd Akin (r):
Todd Akin (r): I’m Todd Akin and I approve this message.
Narrator: Claire McCaskill’s attacks on Todd Akin, misleading, deceptive, false. Akin fights to protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security, defending our Missouri values. Claire McCaskill voted with Obama ninety-eight percent of the time. was the deciding vote to pass Obamacare. Voted to cut and gut Medicare by seven hundred billion dollars. McCaskill voted to raise our taxes but didn’t pay the taxes on her own private plane. Claire McCaskill, the wrong way for Missouri.
“…Akin’s campaign did not dispute the facts posted on the site, but did say it believed the positions McCaskill’s campaign is highlighting are sound ones and make Akin attractive to voters…”
“…Claire McCaskill’s attacks on Todd Akin, misleading, deceptive, false…”
…The Medicare cuts, passed in the Affordable Care Act, come in the form of reimbursement reductions to hospitals, Medicaid prescription drugs and private insurance plans under Medicare Advantage. The Congressional Budget Office projects that they’ll extend the solvency of Medicare by eight years.
AARP, the seniors’ lobby and chief gatekeeper of Medicare benefits, endorsed the Affordable Care Act despite its cuts, arguing that they wouldn’t affect seniors’ access to care. The law expanded benefits by closing the prescription drug coverage gap known as the “doughnut hole.” The hospital and drug industries also endorsed the legislation, believing that the additional customers via the coverage expansion would more than make up for the cuts.
Obama and Ryan agree that Medicare per-beneficiary cost growth needs to be capped at per-capita GDP plus 0.5 percent. But they disagree on what to cut in order to get there.
Ryan’s plan under the Path To Prosperity would end Medicare as an insurance program that directly pays medical bills for the elderly. It would be replaced with a fixed subsidy which seniors may use to buy competing private and public insurance policies on an exchange. If the value of the subsidy does not keep up with the growth of health care costs, seniors would make up the cost and pay higher medical bills.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that Ryan’s plan would raise seniors’ out-of-pocket expenses by $6,500 per year….
BILL TITLE: Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2013 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2014 through 2022
—- YEAS 228 —
Akin
Ryan (WI)
—- NAYS 191 —
—- NOT VOTING 12 —
[emphasis added]
Just so we understand – voting to cut Medicare costs by $700 billion over ten years by reducing costs with no reduction in benefits for seniors = bad, voting to cut $700 billion from Medicare, increase the annual cost to seniors by $6,500.00 each a year, and plow the “savings” into a large tax cut for the one percent = really good.
An ad from Claire McCaskill’s campaign, running on our television:
Claire McCaskill (D): I’m Claire McCaskill and I approve this message.
Narrator: Meet Todd Akin. He wants to be our senator. On the main stream priorities that matter to Missouri how does Akin measure up? See for yourself. In Missouri over a million seniors rely on Social Security. Todd Akin? He wants to privatize it, risking their guaranteed benefit.
Todd Akin (r): I don’t like it. I didn’t design Social Security.
Narrator: The minimum wage? Akin wants to abolish it.
Todd Akin (r): I don’t think the government should be setting the prices or wages on different things.
Narrator: Making college affordable. Akin compared the federal student loans program to stage three cancer.
Todd Akin (r): America has got the equivalent of the stage three cancer of socialism.
Narrator: So, that’s Todd Akin. Privatize Social Security, abolish the minimum wage, and get rid of federal student loans.
Are those main stream Missouri values? Because they’re Todd Akin’s.
“…I don’t think the government should be setting the prices or wages on different things…”
If employers don’t pay a living wage and the social safety net doesn’t exist anymore, hey, problem solved, the one percent get to hoard everything!
