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A group funded by RJ Reynolds, Mid American Energy, and other corporations is running TV and radio ads that target a handful of incumbent House Democrats that includes Elesha Gayman, Eric Palmer, McKinley Bailey, Bob Kressig, and Art Staed. The ads attack the candidates on the issues of property tax relief and fair share (which isn't even being debated this year).The ads have run on cable TV and are paid for by the Iowa Leadership Council, a group organized under the Internal Revenue Code that allows it to raise unlimited contributions.
These ads are applauded by Cyclone Conservative who goes searching for a slogan Republicans can spin in the election. He says that Republicans need to start the attacks now and repeat a slogan over and over again.
The council raised $214,550 in the last six months of 2007, according to IRS records, with the largest donors the Reynolds American tobacco company, which gave $40,000, and MidAmerican Energy Holdings, which donated $25,000.
The slogan that he comes up with is that Democrats are against property tax relief and against keeping jobs in the state. This is absolutely ridiculous. He makes it sound like Democrats want all Iowans to be unemployed and want to force them to hand over all of their money in property taxes.
After running on slogans like "God, Gays, and Guns" for years now, Republicans should realize by now that they no longer are working. Republicans need to forget the slogans and focus on ideas. All of their ideas have run there course and now what is left, is an empty party that is only able to push wedge issues, while they attempt to come up with more meaningless slogans.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
RJ Reynolds, Mid American Energy, and other Corporations Target Democrats
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4 comments:
Shame on you Cyclone Conservative! They are really getting desperate. However I will thank them for letting me know who they are focusing there hate speech on
I'm sending each 20 dollars.
Get em dems!
Susan Radke is also running in the 10th and seems to have a good chance to beat Dave Deyoe. We need to turn over as many seats as possible. I will not stand for this kind of corruption!
Do you all consider thinkgs like Matt McCoy serving as straw man for John Ruan III's campaign contributions as corrupt?
How about John Mauro's $6.8 million gift from the state and county governments?
Dems don't want property tax reform, fighting like crazy against it.
Dems have been runing the state since 98 and our state is broke, repulsive to most new businesses and suffering from a huge population loss. Of course, most libs don't want those results but the results of Democrat leadership aren't really disputable either.
Its like the arsonist who accidentally kills someone in a fire. They didn't mean to do it but the victim is just as dead.
Take it easy cliché desenting Republican:) The Republicans have controlled the legislature for how many years before they lost it in 2006?
And you take no responsibility for it?
If the majority of Iowans thought like you Nussle would have won the gubernatorial, or at least his own congressional district.
Love the clichés "Sporer" but the democrats have a majority because we produce results, whereas Republicans only produce the feces that bears there resemblence.
Democratic now
Democratic tommorow
Democratic forever
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