Binnie goes negative against Ayotte

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New Hampshire Senate candidate Bill Binnie is swiftly rejecting state party Chairman John Sununu’s call to keep the four-way GOP primary positive, launching a pair of ads Tuesday targeting front-runner Kelly Ayotte.

In a letter posted on his website Tuesday, Binnie wrote that Sununu’s request to stay positive comes too late because some of his rivals have already been engaged in “viciously negative” efforts for weeks.

“I will not back away from my engagement in this campaign on the issues, and I will not walk away from defending myself,” Binnie wrote, appearing to preview his next move. “The people of New Hampshire want and deserve someone who is not part of the insider machine and who will be their voice in Washington.”

Making good on the promise, a Binnie adviser told POLITICO that their campaign will begin running a pair of new television ads Tuesday that singe Ayotte for failing to detect large-scale fraud at Financial Resources Mortgage while she was attorney general. Both commercials feature victims of the scandal, accusing Ayotte of failing to handle it competently.

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