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Some especially noxious examples: Tennessee Republican Robin Beard ran a TV commercial in which a Fidel Castro look-alike delightedly lit a cigar with a $100 bill and intoned: "Muchissimas gracias, Senor Sasser." The false implication was that Beard's opponent, Democratic Senator Jim Sasser, had voted for foreign aid appropriations that had somehow benefited Communist Cuba. In California, Republican Peter Cost, a candidate for the state assembly, showed a TV spot in which three actors dressed up to look like especially vicious convicts sat around in a jail cell and praised Cost's opponent, Democrat Sam Farr...
...looks dead when the curtain goes up; he is only dead drunk. Hudley T. Singleton III, who runs his own public relations firm and is known as Hud, is lying on the floor of his Fairfield County, Conn., kitchen with a two-day stubble of beard and two inches left in a quart of vodka. For reasons that seem stupefyingly apparent, his wife has walked out on him, and he has done what every alcoholic does in a moment of crisis-hit the bottle. But his redemptive godfather is at hand, a most unlikely good Samaritan who rips...
...Although Beard later apologized to Sasser for the incident, it raised more questions about the challenger's qualifications for the U.S. Senate. Worse, his charges turned out to be inaccurate and misleading, and even prominent Republican politicians and editorials turned against him. Sasser now mentions Beard's campaign excesses only to ridicule them. Sasser emphasizes economic issues, offering a five-point economic stimulation package...
...BEARD's charges have backfired. An anti-Sasser commercial featuring the antics of a wind-up mouse called "Flippin Jimmy" designed to highlight the Senator's alleged woffling on the issues, raised doubts as to Beard's seriousness and drew threats of a lawsuit from Sasser. A subsequent advertisement featured an actor portraying Fidel Castro lighting a cigar with a $100 bill and saying. "Thanks, Senor Sasser," referring to the Democrat's vote for a bill to extend U.S. aid to international development banks. Later to draw attention to Sasser's vote against a Constitutional amendment banning abortion, the Beard...
...Volunteer State seems more interested in the economy than in foreign policy questions, and Beard's own campaign practices, including his sluggishness in disclosing federal campaign financing information, make his charges right hollow. The Republican says he expects today to bring him victory in "the biggest upset in the history of Tennessee politics." More likely, it will bring a massive repudiation of his New Right Negativism...