this fear mongering is all that Republicans have left.---Chuck Schumer,

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Subject: Washington Post Exposes Republican Strategy
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:15:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sen. Chuck Schumer, DSCC <[e-mail]>
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Dear xxx,

"Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable <$50+ million> financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues and local controversies."

This quote from the front page of Sunday's Washington Post confirms what we at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) have been saying for months. Facing midterm electoral prospects that grow worse by the day, Republicans are embarking on an unprecedented campaign of slander and misinformation.

This week alone, Republicans are launching $1.5 million in ads to impugn our Senate candidates. Yesterday, we saw the Republican's money at work when they put up ads attacking Democratic candidates Harold Ford, Jr. in Tennessee and Sherrod Brown in Ohio. To no one's surprise, the ads peddle more baseless propaganda about Democrats being weak on security.

Believe me folks, this fear mongering is all that Republicans have left.

Nonetheless, Republicans will have to answer for this nonsense. When I assumed the chairmanship of the DSCC, I pledged to answer Republican attacks against our candidates forcefully and unequivocally. And I'm not going to let them distract the voters from the fact that this election is a referendum on George Bush's failed agenda - an agenda that these Republican senators have rubber stamped every step of the way.

When you see ads for Republican Senate candidates on the air in the coming weeks, I hope you'll notice something. The ads won't mention George Bush, the president that most Republican senators voted with over 90% of the time. In many cases, the ads won't even identify the candidate as a Republican. When they're not misleading voters about their own records, Republican candidates will try to sling enough mud at Democratic candidates to distract voters from the real issues.

They won't get away with it on my watch. So long as I have the DSCC's dedicated online community behind me, we will continue to educate voters about the real Republican agenda until Democrats finally emerge victorious on Election Day.

Sincerely,

Sen. Chuck Schumer

[longship]

1. He's right.

If he means what he says, "They won't get away with it on my watch.", and puts it into action, then he's right about that, too.

We can't stand still this time. Take 'em on.