"I am looking for someone, anyone, in New Jersey to fill
up the gap and become 'Freeh'."
Posted on 08/18/2004 5:08:09 PM PDT by Libloather
McGreevey TV Ads Cause Stir
Aug 18, 2004 4:34 pm US/Eastern
PHILADELPHIA (KYW) New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey has been keeping a low public profile but he is still all over the airwaves and not just in news reports.
The governor is in several television ads for everything from the motor vehicle commission to the do-not-call list. But as CBS 3’s Karen Scullin reports, there is one advertisement that many people may be familiar although with the recent turn of events, that ad has been pulled.
In the ad, Governor McGreevey may be telling people the state's motor vehicle department is better than ever but Scullin says that's not the message viewers are getting now from any ad with the him in it.
“I laugh, isn't that sad, I laugh. I've lost confidence in him. When I see them now, it’s a little disheartening,” said Mariann, a resident of New Jersey
Since the governor announced he would resign and that he was gay and had an affair with a man, Scullin has learned that only ad taken off the air is one that promotes New Jersey tourism, showing McGreevey with his wife and daughter.
Tom Raynor agrees with the decision to remove the advertisement: “If he's going to come out in a gay lifestyle, I don't think his wife should be portrayed in a marriage. I'm also gay, it was a very courageous thing that he did, but seeing those ads, I think maybe they should be pulled.”
Scullin reports that advertising experts say television spots showing Governor McGreevey are simply going to be ineffective.
Marc Brownstien of the Brownstein Group says all of the ads should be pulled off the air: “There's a very important message that needs to be communicated to those audiences but now McGreevey's situation has shadowed and overshadowed that message.”
Scullin adds that all the advertisements showing the governor are reportedly being reviewed, but for now remain on the air.
That's too perfect to be a coincidence.
He has become a non-person for the Dem's. An asterisk. Kind of like Kerry's first wife; he never happened.
"I am looking for someone, anyone, in New Jersey to fill
up the gap and become 'Freeh'."
Ohmigosh, no wonder my state is such a mess. These ads needed to all be pulled immediately. Even the kid expressed amazement when she saw one last weekend. Mcg's too stupid to even help himself it seems. Obviously they did discuss this, since they pulled the one with the family. Too bad too, because that's the best one. It's actually one of the best recent TV ads, at the beginning it talks about "before the internet, before video games, there was summer at the Jersey Shore..." (I'm paraphrasing) along with wonderful "fake old" shots of families having fun, burying dad in the sand, etc. It really takes your mind back to an earlier, simpler time. Then it cuts to McG. en famille, and he says "It's still here".
It's a shame, it's really a comment on the whole sordid thing that this particular ad had to be taken down. Even my friend from NY, who's never been to the Jersey Shore, and probably never will be, mentioned it to me as a great ad.
I see 5 or more a day with him. Weird thing is I'd begun to think he really might be different than the usual NJ or Philly democrat criminal. In a way I guess he is a little different.
They didn't pull this ad immediately. I saw it on Saturday, two days after McGreevy's little coming out party.
Ahh, but it lives on, on the internet!
I've seen these ad's.....what a little dork!
() <------ gone. LOL
This guy has got to leave office. There is just so much the electorate can take, and this is TOO MUCH!!! If McGreevey doesn't resign tomorrow, may he find a horses head in his bed before the weekend!!!
This ad is nowhere NEAR as CREEPY as Tom Kean's old "New Jersey & You" spots.
Yea, you can say that again! Pretty ugly dude.
I can't see how the sleaze got away with spending $30 million of the taxpayers' money on these commercials which were just campaign stunt. Kean just did the tourism ads while this fairy did tourism, do not call, motor vehicle, etc.
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