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Omaha Steve

(99,662 posts)
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 06:42 AM Oct 2014

2 Douglas County Republicans blast use of Nikko Jenkins in anti-Ashford ad (UPDATE)

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Source: Omaha World Herald

By Henry Cordes

Republican TV ads picturing Brad Ashford and Nikko Jenkins side-by-side continued to roil the Omaha-area race for Congress on Sunday, with two local Republicans denouncing the ads in a press conference called by Ashford’s campaign.

Stu Dornan, the former Douglas County attorney, and George Mills, a former county board member, used words such as “fear-mongering,’’ “inappropriate,’’ and “over the top’’ to describe the ads being run by the National Republican Congressional Committee, calling on Congressman Lee Terry to get the ads pulled from the air.

The ads “are illustrative of what’s wrong with Washington and why we need a change of leadership,’’ Mills said. “When you feel you’re down in the polls and your numbers are not good, you try anything.’’

Terry campaign said it had no intention of asking the NRCC to pull the ad.

FULL story at link. UPDATE in reply #4



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2 Douglas County Republicans blast use of Nikko Jenkins in anti-Ashford ad (UPDATE) (Original Post) Omaha Steve Oct 2014 OP
UGH! ColesCountyDem Oct 2014 #1
What Brad Ashford has to do with Nikko Jenkins, I have no idea! TheFarseer Oct 2014 #2
That is it Omaha Steve Oct 2014 #3
Republicans are endorsing Ashford today on TV!!! Omaha Steve Oct 2014 #4
Eckkkkk! SoapBox Oct 2014 #5

ColesCountyDem

(6,943 posts)
1. UGH!
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 06:58 AM
Oct 2014

Sadly, this sort of ad seems to be the norm this year. I can't remember a year in which the ads were so vile, OS.

TheFarseer

(9,323 posts)
2. What Brad Ashford has to do with Nikko Jenkins, I have no idea!
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 07:31 AM
Oct 2014

Idiot people will believe there must be some connection though

Omaha Steve

(99,662 posts)
3. That is it
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 10:48 AM
Oct 2014

TV commercials do get votes.

This race is so close according to the polls, it may come down to absentee ballots and a recount.

Omaha Steve

(99,662 posts)
4. Republicans are endorsing Ashford today on TV!!!
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 05:59 PM
Oct 2014

I can't find the ad online yet.

I did find this on Ashford's page: http://bradashfordforcongress.com/news/

October 20, 2014
ROUNDUP: MEMBERS OF CONGRESSMAN LEE TERRY’S OWN PARTY ARE DISGUSTED BY HIS SMEAR CAMPAIGN

OMAHA (October 20, 2014) – The vicious and fear-mongering ads that Congressman Lee Terry’s allies have been running have reached a new low in Nebraska politics. Even members of Congressman Terry’s own party think that he’s gone way too far. Over the past four days Republicans in Nebraska and across the country are slamming Terry’s ads as inappropriate, racist, and completely unacceptable:

Friday, October 17

Tom Becka, Host of The Tom Becka Show, 1290 KOIL –

“What the Republicans are doing to Brad Ashford I think is wrong… to put Brad Ashford’s picture next to Nikko Jenkins’ picture I believe is unconscionable.”

Saturday, October 18

Michael Steele, Former RNC Chairman –

“…to put it in this frame, says something very racist in my view.”

Sunday, October 19

George Mills, former Douglas County Commissioner –

“These ads are illustrative of what’s wrong with Washington.”

Stu Dornan, former Douglas County Attorney –

“To say that Brad Ashford is in any way responsible for anything that’s happened in this community other than good things is simply inappropriate.”

Monday, October 20:

Dan Frei, Congressman Lee Terry’s Primary Opponent –

“We should expect more from our party than the strategy of negative campaigning and the politics of personal destruction…Is this what the Republican Party has become?”

“Republicans and Independents have supported Brad throughout the entire campaign, but the response we’ve gotten since Congressman Terry and his allies in Washington put up their shameful ads has been overwhelming,” said Kurt Gonska, Brad Ashford’s Campaign Manager. “Members of Congressman Terry’s own party are disgusted by how low he’s willing to stoop to save his political career and $174,000 salary. Enough is enough.”


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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2014

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
5. Eckkkkk!
Mon Oct 20, 2014, 06:29 PM
Oct 2014

That was my feeling when I looked up the freak Jenkins...wow, freak and nuts.

So the Pukes just put the two next to each other? If people believe any of that, they don't deserve to vote.

Skeezy.

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