Word: ertel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Negative advertising took a quantum leap in 1980, when a number of conservative groups successfully targeted liberal candidates, mostly Democrats, for defeat. This year no side has a monopoly on the practice, and the victims are hitting back. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Allen Ertel implied on the campaign trail that Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh bore part of the blame for a shooting spree by a deranged prison guard who killed 13 last month in Wilkes-Barre. In retaliation, Thornburgh put ads on television charging that his challenger was "silent" when white policemen in Harrisburg began selling Ku Klux Klan...