Thursday, May 4th, 2006...5:20 pm
Mike Hellon Ad
As you all know, I’m basically a smart alec. If you make a slight error, I will jump on it and make fun of you.
But I try to be fair. For example, when I first saw Mike Hellon’s ad, I thought I heard wrong when they said that Arizona will elect its first new congressman since 1984.
I saw the ad again today, and yes, they do say that. Not “Southeastern Arizona,” but “Arizona.” Go to his website and check it out.
“First new congressman” in the last twenty years would come as a big shock to Jon Kyl, Jay Rhodes, Ed Pastor, Karan English, Sam Coppersmith, John Shadegg, Matt Salmon, J. D. Hayworth, Jeff Flake, Rick Renzi, Trent Franks or Raúl Grijalva, who were all “new congressmen” in the decades since 1984. This is a shade over 40% of the people who have represented Arizona in the House of Representatives since statehood.
NB - This ad is running pretty early. Is Jon Kyl going to have a press release saying that Hellon is “desperate”?
2 Comments
May 5th, 2006 at 11:32 am
Jon Kyl started running his own early ads last week.
He even came out with the obligatory ‘why is Jim Pederson running attack ads’ ad which usually presages a flurry of personal attacks.
Of course Pederson only has called into question some of the more ridiculous aspects of Kyl’s immigration plan– which is already on the record– but I expect Kyl to run a very sleazy campaign straight out of the sewer. And why do I expect that? Because a couple of months ago I got a phone call from a ‘pollster’ who was trying to smear Pederson with a bunch of half truths and distortions. I’m sure I will hear them again, on Kyl’s commercials.
May 5th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Right on, Eli. I’m fully expecting the half truths and distrotions to come from both sides.
Oh wait. It’s already begun.