Labor unleashes ad (another) against Blanche Lincoln

[Omaha Steve]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/05/the_morning_plum_13.html


The Morning Plum: New SEIU ad rips Lincoln

* Labor unleashes ad against Blanche Lincoln: The SEIU is going up in Arkansas with a tough new ad slamming her for voting with George Bush and being in the tank with Big Oil and Gas.

A source sends over video of the as-yet-unrealeased ad, previewing how labor intends to frame its attack on Lincoln in the countdown to the runoff with Bill Halter in early June.

"Remember when gas hit $4 a gallon?" the ad asks. "What did Senator Blanche Lincoln do? She helped George Bush and Dick Cheney give oil and gas companies over $14 billion in tax breaks. Maybe that's why Lincoln received over half a million dollars in campaign contributions from oil and gas companies."

The spot is in keeping with labor's strategy of painting Lincoln as a creature of Washington who has sold out ordinary Arkansans.

* Also: Bill Halter is up with a new spot that claims momentum for Halter: "Three more weeks. Two more candidates. One choice for change."

* National GOP strategists can't be happy to see that Rand Paul's comments about the Civil Rights Act continue to get huge play, with big takeouts in The Washington Post and The New York Times.

FULL story at link.