Caught red-handed again?
(ed. note: corrected to accurately describe the nature of the commercial — it is nearly identical to the one we discussed earlier, but it is not exactly the same.)
Kuhl has an ad (almost identical to the one we wrote about recently) running in the southern part of the district (presumably on an Elmira station) in which he claims credit for some bacon that a local union says he didn’t bring home:
A local union says a recent campaign ad approved by New York State Congressman Randy Kuhl is misleading. United Auto Workers claim that Congressman Kuhl shouldn’t be taking credit for bringing the Black Hawk Helicopter project to Schweizer Aircraft.
Here’s my thoughts on this:
- I don’t really blame Kuhl for doing this. He’s a freshman House member and I dare say not a particularly well-respected one (though he has a pretty decent record on transparency issues). He doesn’t have the juice to bring many projects into the district. So he takes credit for projects that other people brought in. I doubt that this is that unusual, especially among politically weak Congressmen in tight races.
- Given how much the Kuhl campaign whined about the supposed inaccuracies in the MoveOn commercials (some of which were real, but no more real, it seems, than this inaccuracy), I have no sympathy for him here. You live by the technicality, you die by the technicality. That’s life in the big city.
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