This ad is offensive
Here’s the grandmothers-in-crosshairs ad the Republican National Committee is running in support of Kuhl. This has to stop.
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Well said.
I saw this last night on the 5 o’clock news in Rochester. Two runs of it sandwiched a good Massa ad. Any ideas on how to counter this locally? Didn’t Kuhl support Social Security private accounts?
Yes Kuhl supported the McCrery bill and private accounts.
Which TV station?
This is disgusting. Where has it been shown?
A sniper scope over the image of a real person has no place political advertising. The fact that Randy Kuhl threatened someone (his wife) with a shotgun makes it even more disgusting.
Where has this ad been shown? On which channels or stations?
It was on Channel 13 Friday evening.
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Ya, that ad is really bad
So let me see if I understand…Kuhl has now turned his gun on older women? Isn’t there some kind of saying, like “people who live in glass houses should stop aiming their guns at others” or something like that?
[...] And so we stood and waited… people watching and eavesdropping. Nobody mentioned how Reynolds protected Foley, or how he exploited their children in that shameless press conference. Nothing about how tasteless it is that Randy Kuhl is running an ad with a sniper scope on senior citizens. No remarks about Jim Walsh and his new Abramoffesque ethical troubles. Yup, all I heard was right wing comradery and speculation about which color Laura’s outfit will be. [...]
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[...] In 2006, Kuhl won the race in large part because of a flurry of deceitful and, in some cases, offensive ads that sought to portray Massa as an opponent of Social [...]