Sunday, April 6th, 2008...1:29 pm
Tisk, Tisk, Tisk.
Okay, check out this ad running now for Tim Bee. You tell me what is missing:
Yep, no disclaimer to tell us who is paying for the darned thing.
I can already see the arguments from the Bee camp:
“Oh, it isn’t a campaign ad. Citizens are just saying, ‘Thank you’ to Tim Bee for supporting education.”
Yeah, right. Even if I buy that, such an ad would still need a disclaimer.
“Oh, this ad was run by an independent organization, and Bee had nothing to do with it.”
An agument I could buy, if the ad didn’t include footage of Bee standing with the other folks in the ad. Maybe random videographers are following him constantly looking for “candid” footage like that.
“Oh, okay, well in that case, it was just a simple mistake. Campaign laws are so confusing, we apologize profusely.”
How many campaigns has Bee been involved in again? How many experienced hands are helping him out with this one?
Let me put on my knee jerk partisan hat. I have some real suspicions about why this ad was made the way it was. Never in the ad, for example, is it mentioned that he is running for congress. Since I find it hard to believe that some random otherwise-disinterested-in-politics group would run the ad (especially since they didn’t identify themselves). It is almost as if the ad doesn’t mention the congressional race so people would think it wasn’t a campaign ad. What is Bee trying to pull here?
6 Comments
April 6th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Nor does he or the ad answer the questions why education spending in this state has fallen from dismal to one of abysmal while he has been in the legislature?? Where has this great support for education and teachers been for the past whatever years he has been in Phoenix?
When I first saw the ad, I was half expecting to see his dad in his old printers apron touting the bill.
April 6th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
yep, saw it on CNN yesterday and was surprised.
April 6th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Yeah, I’m curious to know who paid for this.
I’m guessing that the purpose of the ad is to start developing district wide name recognition for Senator Bee. The timing is about right.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Right on Azw88!
This ad is typical Bee and hints at some desperation, honestly. I wonder how much (or how little) he has raised from the GOP machine that has brought us spiffy campaigns and high dollar donations of the past? This seems a bit telling in that regard.
The typical part is how he pretends to be running…and not running…so he could raise money over the past year without declaring as a candidate and having to resign his seat in the Senate…yeah…I harp, but it is showing a kind of character that this ad appears to buttress.
April 8th, 2008 at 12:28 am
I am underwhelmed.
Thanks for catching the ad and calling it to our attention.
Giffords is not going to make the mistakes necessary for a Bee victory and minus such mistakes he cannot catch her.
Naturally, her campaign having my confidence is one of those mistakes. She needs to play pedal to metal. She will and already is.
Did Bee have a booth at the 4th ave street fair collecting signatures and distributing information?
She did.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:25 am
I am still seething with insincerely righteous indignation that George Cunningham used children in a political ad!
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