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UPDATE - 6:16pm, 9/14 - AWESOME! The Bill White campaign did a mash-up video of the news stories for a web ad. Check it out here:
Rick Perry's campaign launched their first television ad of the general election on Sunday. I reported here, on Burnt Orange Report, that two different stores used as footage in the ad objected to their presence in the ad. Here are those two posts:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry isn’t getting the press he likely expected after Sunday’s release of his first fall re-election campaign ad.
The 30-second spot, “Texas: Open for Business,” features the Repubican governor touring three small businesses along with shots of two storefronts in Austin’s trendy South Congress neighborhood. In the ad, Perry touts the Lone Star state’s job numbers (July unemployment: 8.2%, more than a full percentage point below the 9.5% national average that month). But representatives for the two storefronts featured in the ad said they don’t plan to vote for the governor in November. They also said they weren’t told their businesses would be featured in a Perry ad, as first reported by Burnt Orange Report, a Texas state politics blog.
Additionally, the story got wall-to-wall television coverage here in Austin and across major parts of the state.
We have to stand up against the dishonesty and complete lack of integrity exhibited by the Rick Perry campaign on a daily basis. Additionally, we must all realize that their campaign is far, far from being a well-oiled machine. I mean -- do you remember the Rick "Chicken" Perry press conference?
The store owners are asking Rick Perry to pull down the ad. We'll see if they do, but who knows -- maybe Rick Perry is going to make them release their tax returns from the 1990's before he agrees to show some actual respect to the small busiensses he claims to support.
