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TX 17: NRCC Pulls Out of Taylor Race


by: Phillip Martin

Tue Oct 17, 2006 at 11:49 AM CDT


Looks like Congressman Chet Edwards just locked this one up! The National Republican Campaign Committee pulled $1.5 million worth of advertising from the race in TX-17 between Congressman Edwards and Republican challenger Van Taylor. From a press release from the Edwards campaign:
According to five television stations in the DFW market, the NRCC on Monday canceled its planned television ad buy on behalf of Taylor.  The cancelled Taylor buy was valued at over $1.5 million and was scheduled to run in the last two weeks of the campaign.
This will prove to be a tremendous boom for Edwards, who'd already received endorsements from the papers and maintained an 10:1 fundraising advantage over Taylor.
“Two years ago, the NRCC ran over a million dollars of ads in the DFW market alone in support of Chet’s opponent.  Mr. Taylor can spin the bad news any way he wants, but the fact is that after reviewing its own poll last week, the NRCC has pulled the plug on the Van Taylor campaign,” said Edwards Communication Director, Jessica Schafer. “That’s not just bad news, that’s devastating news for a campaign that was already in trouble.”

“With a 21 point lead in the polls and a more than ten-to-one cash-on-hand advantage, we have both the resources and momentum to aggressively communicate Chet’s positive message of effective, hard work for the people of the 17th District and get out the vote across the district,” added Schafer.

Obviously, this would move Congressman Edwards from "lean" to "likely," if not out-and-out solid.

Now...can we move some money into defeating Ron Paul?

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Talk about a vote of no confidence from the party.

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