New AFP TV spot attacks Udall over Obamacare cancellations

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Source: KDVR-TV FOX 31 Denver

The second TV ad from the group Americans For Prosperity attacking Colorado Sen. Mark Udall focuses on the 335,000 health insurance policy cancellation letters mailed to Coloradans as a result of the Affordable Care Act that Udall supported.

That figure — 335,000 people whose “plans were cancelled due to Obamacare”, the ad’s narrator says — has been disputed by Democrats, who point out that 92 percent of those individuals were offered options to renew their coverage…

Additionally, Democrats criticized the AFP ad’s use of an photograph of Udall standing next to President Obama, both with somber expressions, as the narrator remarks “…all because Mark Udall said yes to Obamacare.”

The image was taken in July 2012 at Children’s Hospital in Aurora moments after Obama and Udall met with family members of those killed and injured just days earlier in the Aurora theater shooting.

“Republican, Democrat or unaffiliated, all Coloradans can agree that using imagery from a visit to comfort the victims of the tragedy in Aurora is out-of-bounds for political attacks,” Chris Harris, Udall’s spokesman, told FOX31 Denver Wednesday.

Read more: http://kdvr.com/2014/04/23/new-afp-tv-spot-attacks-udall-over-obamacare-cancellations/

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Americans for Prosperity, if you want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars running misleading ads with attacks that were debunked months before you ever filmed it, that's your prerogative. But for God's sake, show some common decency to the victims of the Aurora shootings and stop using these pictures. It's beneath all of us.

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