Labor ad blasts Blanche Lincoln all over the place

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/05/new_labor_ad_blasts_blanche_li.html

Labor ad blasts Blanche Lincoln all over the place
Greg Sargent

A brutal new ad targeting Blanche Lincoln:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX_xSjxElNc&feature=player_embedded


It can't be overstated how huge a victory knocking off Lincoln would be for organized labor, and now one of the major unions is up with its first spot of the runoff, a very aggressive ad blasting Lincoln on multiple fronts.

The new minute-long spot, from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, is backed by an $855,000 buy, an official says, underscoring how heavily invested labor is in taking her down. It throws a whole fusillade of charges at Lincoln, even ridiculing her recent election-day snafu, in which her campaign forgot she'd requested an absentee ballot for herself:

The ad will be running all the way through June 7th, the day before Lincoln faces Bill Halter in the runoff, according to Ricky Feller, who oversees AFSCME's advertising in Arkansas. It represents the lion's share of the $1.4 million the union has pledged to spend on the runoff.

"This one of our largest shots," Feller tells me.

Labor's heavy investment in ads attacking Lincoln have allowed Halter to simultaneously take the high road: His first spot of the runoff is an overwhelmingly positive one. Such ads run the risk of helping Lincoln paint Halter as a tool of outside groups.

But labor clearly sees no need for caution, and from now until election day will throw everything it's got at Lincoln -- with a vengeance.

Yahoo! More Blanche!

Nope. I don't see it, either. Particularly with a real, live alternative like Bill Halter. According to Daily Kos, Lincoln is now desperately running around the parade route, trying to get in front and pretend that she's been there all the time. She's somehow hoping that everyone will forget her obstructionist ways on health care reform, and believe that she's the champion of the little people and the common man (and woman) while taking big campaign bucks from big corporations.

She's floundering, and AFSCME is tossing her an anchor. Excellent.

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They went on with their script about how Republicans such as Sarah Palin needed to be "fought back" against, and I told 'em I was just as angry at democrats such as Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu, so I wasn't going to give any $$$ this time.