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Calling the most recent TV ad against New Hampshire Senate candidate Paul Hodes (D) "false, misleading and just plain wrong," his campaign today accused Republican candidate Kelly Ayotte of relying on special interests groups to save her senatorial campaign.
The ad -- which Hodes communications director Mark Bergman called "right off the Glenn Beck chalkboard" in a conference call today -- is sponsored by the conservative American Action Network, and it ends by urging voters to support Kelly Ayotte, the GOP front-runner in the race. American Action Network also has sponsored ads against Patty Murray (D) in Washington state and Charlie Crist (I) in Florida.
"We're gaining momentum," Bergman continued. "We've surged, cutting Ayotte's lead in half as more voters find out her record. We've been successful and special interests are getting worried and attacking Paul."
Citing American Action Network chairman Fred Malek's close ties to Sarah Palin -- and the former Alaska governor has endorsed Ayotte in New Hampshire's Senate race -- Hodes campaign manager Valerie Martin claimed that the organization's board "is run by Kelly Ayotte donors."
Bergman defended Hodes' vote on cap-and-trade, the subject of the American Action Network ad. "We need to wean our influence off of foreign oil," he said. "We need to stand up to the big oil special interests and create a 21st century economy that's based on alternative energy."
"Kelly Ayotte cannot possibly be an independent voice," Martin concluded, "If her campaign has to be rescued by outside groups."
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That must be some ad since Beck's chalkboard clearly illustrates the dangers of paranoid, delusional thinking.
Ahhh, Glenn Beck and his Black Board Jungle. It's just a maze of confusion in whis Beck's trolls are forever seeking.
Trolls remember it's...
Forward Forever
Backwards Never
Save her campaign? She's ahead by double digits-Hodes is desperate.
What a freaking moron.
This seems to be a demonstration of the control of our elections handed to corporations by the Supreme Court. I guess there is no hope of ever getting back to a one person one vote democracy in this country.
I live in NH and have seen Ayotte in action,,,she's another Palin and who needs that. Pauls got my vote!
From The Nashua, NH Telegraph:
Hodes’ attack ads are not all that surprising
Regarding the article “Hodes stretching truth in early attack ads against Ayotte,” written by Michael Morse of FactCheck.Org and published in The Telegraph on July 4:
The behavior attributed to U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes, i.e. stretching the truth, is understandable. Hodes, a Democratic candidate for the Senate, has basically voted the party line without making decisions supported by the majority of the electorate.
A check of his voting record clearly documents this fact. Obamacare, bank bailouts, automotive company bailouts, card check, cap and trade are just a few of the things Hodes voted for, each of which will ultimately burden the taxpayers of his district with greatly increased taxes.
Consequently, he really can’t boast about what he has done for his constituency, so he has to run down Kelly Ayotte, one of his Republican opponents.
In my opinion, if Hodes were to be elected, he could just stay home and leave orders to vote a strict party line in his absence and the result would be the same.
Personally, I would prefer to see someone in that position who really cared about what was best for the electorate rather than what was best for the party.
Paul Hodes lies like a rug!
Letter to the Editor from the Manchester, NH Union Leader:
We currently have a President (Obama) who pointed his finger at another President (Bush) and railed against what he called irresponsible spending. Then, when he was elected President (Obama) spent more in his first 7 months in office than the President (Bush) he ranted against did during his 8 years in office. Dishonesty, insincerity, and out-and-out snow-jobs have become the hallmark of this administration. We all thought that this administration would be different but it is the same old "Do as I say - not as I do" philosophy. In other words . . . "The lying lout is gone - long live the lying lout"!
We have a Congress that spends our Social Security monies to get themselves re-elected by adding pork-barrel projects to every bill that comes out of the house just to please their constituents . . . all at our expense. They all want us to support a healthcare bill that they refuse to sign up for themselves. Pelosi, Obama, and all of Congress exempt themselves from the healthcare and retirement programs that we live with every day. Remember; it is “do as I say . . . not as I do”. They want the monies for this healthcare bill put into the general fund so they can spend it just like they did with our Social Security monies and Medicare monies. I guess enough is never enough for these pseudo pick-pockets.
Republicans or Democrats - it makes no difference folks. The corrupt politicians from both sides of the aisle are picking our bones clean. They have even begun to work on the bones of our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren with this insane spending. We really need to keep rolling these corrupt, self-centered individuals out at every opportunity. Paul Hodes of NH is a prime example. While most of his constituents do not want this healthcare bill, he supports it and has voted for it every time because it is the party line. To hell with the seniors in his district - to hell with the taxpaying voters who put him into office - he wants a Senate seat badly and needs Pelosi's support to get it. In my opinion, he would probably support taxing your blood if Pelosi asked him to, in order to get her support and the support of the party.
All the while Hodes and the rest of his ilk give little more than lip-service to the real problems that are crippling NH and our country . . . problems like raging unemployment, insane levels of spending, more and more jobs being off-shored, more and more American made products being replaced on store shelves by products from other countries, more and more illegal immigrants draining the social programs paid for by U.S. citizens and meant to help U.S. citizens.
They are all pretty much like Hodes - regardless of which side of the aisle they hail from! Remember that come November and roll every one of them out of office. If the crop that replaces them ignores what we want, roll them out too, and keep doing it until they learn that we put them into office to work for us . . . not the other way around. We need to make them understand that our votes gave them political life and our votes can take it away!
missmack, it's little wonder the rest of the country considers you people a bunch of hicks. We can tell you are addicted to fox news. Go ahead and vote in Ayotte. Then just wait for your unemployment checks to stop comming. When you have to go looking for a job, there won't be any. When your starving, to bad, no more food stamps. When you lose your house, sorry, no more welfare. But when you die, don't worry, you won't have to pay estate taxes on the nothing you have left. Have a good day.
One big problem i have with out election process - we don't need ads produced by supporters and companies outside our state. If you find out a candidate (of either party) is getting funding from outside your state you should question it seriously and vote for the other person out of principal. One thing I have to say about TN's repugnant governors race, those ads from outside sources did not do ramsey or wamp one bit of good. I hope haslam and mcwherter learned from that and both tell those folks to keep their money and their influence.
You recently referred to Kelly Ayotte, the senate candidate from NH, as the "former tough NH attorney general. Not quite so tough if you Google NH's Nifong. The US attorney investigation of her office, called for by federal judge Joseph Laplante, was terminated in a terse e-mail from the chief investigator on instructions of his boss-former US attorney Tom Colantuono-a Bush appointee. The new US attorney is an Obama appointee. I will going be to him once someone like yourself is willing to break the story. It will be nearly impossible for him to not file charges against Kelly at that time given the volumne of evidence. Next/ A Most Remarkable Coinincidence/ The e-mail from the US attorney came to me at precisely the same time as AG Eric Holder and Senator Patrick Leahy were addressing the Senate Judiciary Committee, each saying that no one, whoever they maybe are above the law, and that partisan interests will not come into account when the decision to prosecuteis made. Break the story and then you have the next story-Will Obama instruct Holder to order an investigation through the NH office. Will Kelly Ayotte, if elected, and even if not elected, become the next Senator Stevens,i.e. the subject of a federal probe and prosecution. And more on that remarkable coincidence-Google RedHampshire-enter Coltin in the search box/upper right. Contact me with a mail address to review the documents I mention in the NH's Nifong blog. davecoltin@netscape.net Your chance to break a national story.