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Republicans mock their opponents for replacing Senator Robert Torricelli with former Senator Frank Lautenberg after Torricelli withdrew because of ethics questions. The ad shows a frustrated schoolboy asking his teacher: "If I fail this test, can I have Frank Lautenberg take...
Independent nominee for Governor Tim Penny and Democrat Roger Moe are "Taxman and Roger" in an ad portraying them as Batman and Robin. "Holy tax increases," yelps a Robinesque voice. Republican Tim Pawlenty appears as Superman with an antitax emblem on his shirt...
Listeners to black radio stations are the target of new ads from conservative groups and G.O.P. national and state parties. In one, a black woman gripes that Democrats "tax my smokes." In a Missouri G.O.P. ad, awoman tells her granddaughter, "Baby, there are some real ugly Democrats that have hurt black people." Many of these ads come from the Council for Better Government, set up by a former Kansas G.O.P. official, John Altevogt. It vows to spend $1.5million in 12states, including New Jersey, North Carolina and Georgia. One Democratic official complains the ads are "about suppressing black votes...
...employs over half of the 10,000 janitors currently seeking a new contract. Although six contractors have signed an interim agreement with the janitors that would give them health care and full-time work, UNICCO remains openly defiant, employing hundreds of replacement workers as strikebreakers and continuing an ad campaign aimed at discrediting the janitors and their union. UNICCO is widely despised by Boston janitors for their abusive employment practices...
...message," Thune frets. "A lot of times I don't think it fits the style and tone of South Dakota." That may be. But Thune ran a spot featuring a picture of Saddam Hussein while criticizing Johnson for voting against the missile-defense program. Daschle called the ad "repulsive," and Johnson, whose Army-sergeant son only recently returned from Afghanistan, demanded an apology. Thune insists that while the national media criticized him, "I didn't catch any flak from real voters, from people in South Dakota. There was no blowback...