Mark Begich (D-AK) pulls brutal attack ad after backlash
Alaska Democratic Senator Mark Begich’s campaign is pulling a brutal attack ad accusing Republican opponent Dan Sullivan of allowing an alleged murderer and rapist to get off with a light sentence after criticism from a lawyer representing the victims’ families.
The family’s attorney, Bryon Collins, excoriated Begich over the television commercial.
“You are tearing this family apart to the point that your ad was so shocking to them they now want to permanently leave the state as quickly as possible,” Collins wrote in a blistering letter that went on to accuse Begich of “playing pure politics at the expense of my clients.”
Collins also demanded that Sullivan take down a response ad, which his campaign is doing as well.
full: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mark-begich-pulls-brutal-attack-ad-after-backlash
Alaska Dispatch News (the former Anchorage Daily News) also reports: Begich, Sullivan campaigns drop controversial ads referencing Mountain View case
