Posted on 07/16/2008 10:24:39 AM PDT by Born Conservative
ABC News’ Karen Travers Reports: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has purchased ad time in Pennsylvania’s 11th Congressional District targeting Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, the Republican challenger who is looking to unseat Democratic Rep. Paul Kanjorski.
This is the first ad of the general election cycle from the DCCC, which has already reserved advertising time in 31 congressional districts at the cost of about $35-million. Those ad buys are scheduled to begin airing on television between early September and early October and run through Election Day.
The DCCC ad in Pennsylvania ties Barletta to President George W. Bush, stating that Bush has a friend in Pennsylvania in the Republican challenger. It begins running on Scranton-area television stations on Tuesday and is scheduled to stay up for several weeks.
A DCCC official confirms the ad was shipped to stations in Pennsylvania today and will begin airing tomorrow.
Kanjorski could be in for a tough battle against the Hazleton mayor The 12-term congressman is the second-longest serving Member from Pennsylvania (after Rep. John Murtha) and has never won a race by fewer than 13 percentage points. The two are familiar opponents – Kanjorski beat Barletta in the 2002 election.
Kanjorski was the first House Democrat to go on the air with ads, purchasing time on local affiliates in the Scranton PA area last month.
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Attack Ad? Isn’t that the type of campaigning we’ve been hearing left-wingers screech about for years?
He SHOULD be in trouble. According to a report I saw on the tube, he has abused earmarks to pad his family’s pockets.
Cornerstone Technologies.
And, one of Kanjo’s nephews that ran Cornerstone into bankruptcy is now with ANOTHER company (in Colorado) that received more government grants: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993700/posts
It is interesting that they are willing to spend money to save this seat. I thought they were sitting pretty and going to be able to spend all their money taking GOP seats away.
I would say Nick Lampson in CD22 of Texas is in a bit of trouble. Nick took Tom Delay’s seat with the thinest of margins.
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