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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.
A new political action committee billing itself as the Back to Basics PAC has produced a 30-second anti-Perry spot that is expected to start running in select Texas markets tonight. Democratic sources say the ad buy totals $250,000, and hits on a theme we've heard a lot this summer: Perry's elite lifestyle, in the face of a multi-billion dollar budget crisis.
That is a fantastic television ad. Great to see Democrats hitting Perry hard early on in the summer.
A couple of weeks ago, Sarah from Public Citizen blogged about how San Antonio Democratic Congressman Charlie Gonzalez wanted to give away pollution credits for free. As Sarah wrote:
Charlie Gonzalez just doesn't have his facts straight on this one. If you're really concerned about consumers, giving away pollution credits for free is about the worst way you can write this bill. Giving away allowances would force customers to pay for industry and utilities' right to pollute without even cutting carbon emissions. There is a right and a very wrong way to write a good climate change bill, and Charlie is supporting the wrong way.
EPA's most recent analysis say that giving away pollution credits is "highly regressive", meaning it hurts low-income families the most. At best, this is a bailout and a free ride for the polluters. At worst it will create windfall profits for huge energy companies at the expense of every lower and middle income family in Texas.
Others have taken notice. VoteVets.org have produced a television ad urging Congressman Charlie Gonzalez to support clean energy initiatives. According to their release, the ad will run in the San Antonio cable market over 600 times. (A similar ad is running in Congressman Gen Green's district). Take a look at this excellent ad:
The speaker is Patrick Bellon, an Iraq War Veteran from Texas. In the press release announcing the ad, Bellon remarked:
“Getting America less dependent on foreign oil and towards clean energy is a national security matter,” said Bellon, who also is a member of VoteVets.org. “Congressman Gonzalez has a chance to vote for a comprehensive clean energy jobs bill that would lessen those Middle East oil profits that help fund terrorism, and would create jobs right here. As someone who’s fought against insurgents in Iraq, this bill is a no brainer, and we’re hoping the Congressman feels the same way.”
This new commercial from the Obama campaign was released for air yesterday and is being seen today in the states of Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Virginia.
(That's 18 states, six more than what Kerry targeted in 2004.)
Also, it seems the Obama campaign is looking for a large summertime media placement, quite possibly on the Olympics.
Though the Obama campaign is keeping mum about whether it will definitely run spots, it has asked NBC Universal about Olympics advertising including $500,000, $2 million and $4 million packages of ads. (NBC presented those along with a $10 million package.) It's not only a sign that the Obama camp has faith it can continue its stellar fundraising achievements but a signal that a widening field of battleground states has the candidate contemplating national broadcast buys. An Olympics buy could also allow Mr. Obama to reach out to a large swath of women. http://adage.com/article?artic...
