Group runs anti-Kerry ads on Black radio stations

[CookieD]

Group Runs Anti-Kerry Ads on Black Radio Stations

By Thomas B. Edsall
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 12, 2004; Page A01

A group financed by a major Republican contributor has begun running radio ads in about a dozen cities, many in battleground states, attacking Sen. John F. Kerry as "rich, white and wishy-washy" and mocking his wife for boasting of her African roots.

The D.C.-based group, People of Color United, has substantial financial backing from J. Patrick Rooney, the former chairman of Golden Rule Insurance Co. and the founder of a new firm, Medical Savings Insurance Co. Both firms specialize in medical savings accounts, created by Republican-backed 1996 legislation, and health savings accounts, which were created by President Bush's 2003 Medicare prescription drug legislation.

One of the radio ads addresses Kerry's failure to vote on a bill to extend unemployment benefits for 13 weeks: "It needed 60 votes to pass. Ninety-nine out of 100 senators voted -- Kerry did not! It lost by one vote! Maybe Kerry thought the more of us who are unemployed and hurting, the more likely we would vote Democrat."

Another ad attacks Teresa Heinz Kerry, who, at the Democratic convention last month cited her birth and upbringing in Mozambique and who has described herself as African American. In the radio commercial, the announcer says: "His wife says she's an African American. While technically true, I don't believe a white woman, raised in Africa, surrounded by servants, qualifies."

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[CookieD]

1. Ooops, sorry

Looks like it's a dupe.

[NEOBuckeye]

2. And Bush is better how? n/t

[GainesT1958]

3. Those ads have about as much chance of turning...

African-Americans away from Kerry as, well, as Alan Keyes does of beating Barrack Obama!:eyes:

If that's some of the best they can do, it's pretty pathetic!x(

B-)

[DavidFL]

4. They don't say which cities in which states these are running in...

I have heard Kerry ads on the local R&B/hip hop stations here during the morning shows in Tampa, which was a surprise because I don't remember Gore running ads like that 4 years ago -- but maybe that's because at that time I was in NY. I haven't heard these yet, though, but I will keep an ear out for them.

If they do run these ads here, and since we have CentCom here, these ads could have some effect with members of the military and their families because, believe it not, there are some Black military families in the area that think Bush is doing a "good" job. And the local, rightwing NBC affiliate always goes out of its way to find them and put them on camera when doing a story about the election.

[schultzee]

5. Why doesn't Kerry have a rapid response team? He is running his

damn campaign as stupid as Gore did. The DLC is killing the democratic party. Being republican light does not work. Why won't they fight the pigs. These republicans are not gentlemen and if Kerry acts like one, he will lose, and there is too much to lose this time.

[Moderator]

6. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x744315