Charlie Stenholm -Refuses to stop using Bush photo in ad

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http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/9683897.htm

Interesting on a couple of levels- first, that a Democrat (he's a Blue Dog Dem) is using Bush to get elected in his NEW district (he's currently my congressmen until November). Second, that it ticks off the Repubs who feel he is tromping on their ground with Bush.
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Democratic U.S. Rep. Charlie Stenholm said he will stick with a TV ad that shows him with President Bush, despite a request by the Republican National Committee to pull the ad.

Stenholm's opponent, Republican U.S. Rep. Randy Neugebauer of Lubbock, notified the RNC about the ad running in Abilene and Lubbock.

The two incumbents are battling each other for a district drawn in last year's Republican-led redistricting.

The RNC sent Stenholm a letter asking him to "cease and desist" in running an ad because it is "misleading" to voters, RNC spokeswoman Lindsay Taylor said.

"When a candidate uses photos of the president in a campaign ad, it implies support and endorsement of that candidate," Taylor said. "The president is not supporting the re-election of Charlie Stenholm. He is supporting Randy Neugebauer."

Stenholm, of Abilene, used the same photo of Bush in a 2002 contest against another Republican. The photo was taken in Washington by a Stenholm staffer at the signing of a farm bill in 2002, according to Stenholm's campaign office