Tag: Attack Ads

Sen. Ken Salazar on Saturday called for an investigation into a new Marilyn Musgrave TV ad, terming the ad's claims "absolutely false in every way." Rep. Musgrave's opponent, Democrat Betsy Markey, also called on the 4th District Republican to "immediately stop airing" the ad, which attacks Markey with claims she enriched herself with "non-competitive Halliburton-style contracts" and "used her congressional job to double her company's contracts."

Planned Parenthood Action Center on Friday released a TV ad set to air in Denver and other markets where the McCain campaign has been advertising a claim that Barack Obama favored teaching kindergarteners about sex. The bill supported by Obama, Planned Parenthood says, would in fact teach youngsters to protect themselves from sexual predators.

As Washington Independent correspondent Art Allen reported yesterday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is a proponent of a video game-style of hunting, where hunters shoot animals, like wolves and bears, from the sky in a low-flying airplane.

That 9/11 Truce didn't last long.

An aging hippie standing outside a smoke-filled van joins an attack on "eminent domain abuse" as two high-spending outside groups launched new attack ads against Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Mark Udall this week.

Using unusually strong language against "The Original Mavericks," a new McCain-Palin ad that began airing Monday in Colorado and other battleground states, the Obama campaign said a claim that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fought against the Bridge to Nowhere is a lie. Barack Obama countered with an ad of his own today.

The Obama campaign began airing a radio ad in Colorado and at least six other swing states this week that takes on John McCain's opposition to abortion, Politico's Ben Smith reports.

A conservative Colorado political group allegedly backed by big-oil money and calling itself the Western Skies Coalition has targeted key state Senate races, apparently bent on portraying pro-oil Republicans vying for those seats as champions of alternative energy.

A group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans on Tuesday unveiled a TV ad critical of 4th District Republican Marilyn Musgrave's vote on a pay bonus for combat veterans. The 30-second spot has already been running heavily for a week on Denver channels and is part of a $1 million campaign by VoteVets.org to "[expose] the records of public officials on veterans and military issues."

Colorado Republican State Chairman Dick Wadhams sparred with influential lobbyist Wally Stealey in Vail Friday over the negative campaigning of independent political committees, campaign finance reform and the disaffection of voters with their respective political parties.