First-time candidate Chad Barefoot debuted his first television commercial in his state Senate race with a tried-and-true jab at the legislative body he wants to join.
Barefoot mocks his rival, Democratic incumbent Doug Berger, for sponsoring legislation to regulate the use of barber poles in an ad featuring a circus tent and the label "clowning around."
Barefoot, who is running in the Raleigh area, worked as an aide to House GOP leader Skip Stam, so he knows the legislature is often referred to as a circus and sometimes lawmakers consider random legislation -- which if elected, he will vote on too.
The ad labels his Democratic rival "silly liberal Doug Berger" and shoots him out of a cannon. It also dubiously hits Berger for "trying to ban grocery bags" -- referencing a vote to ban plastic bags at big retailers on the Outer Banks, a pet project of former Senate leader Marc Basnight, who grew tired of them polluting the beaches. (The bill is Senate Bill 1018, not House Bill 1018, as the ad originally stated.)
The ad is comical but unlike any other on the TV today -- and maybe that will actually cut through the muck. The spot is airing on broadcast stations in the Raleigh area.
Comments
Barefaced
September 14, 2012 - 8:40pm — bnartistSpoken like a concern troll if ever I saw one. The guy who was a primary sponsor of The Castle Doctrine bill with far right Republican Andrew Brock is too liberal? This pompous drivel is pure sockpuppetry. If Skip Stam's protege and Tami Fitzgerald's son-in-law is your idea of a "commonsensedemocrat" you're clearly no Democrat, unless you're one of those Republicans I know who register Democratic just to vote in the primary against a strong candidate.
Berger is too liberal
September 13, 2012 - 5:59pm — commonsensedemocratThe leaders of my Democratic party today, politicians like Doug Berger, continue to show no ability to connect to us or represent our values. Berger should be focusing on jobs and education, two issues that have always been important to NC democrats. I have a feeling (and have spoken to many other democrats) that we all feel the same. Doug Berger's ineffectiveness from the start, even when we were in control, is sending me in a different direction, along with many others.
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September 13, 2012 - 5:35pm — Conservative10
Barefoot running in wrong district?
September 12, 2012 - 9:20pm — bnartistWhat is comical is that Barefoot filmed his scene in this ad on Senator Josh Stein's street across from Stein's house, not in Barefoot's own district. Stein was the primary sponsor of SB 1018 which was designed to protect coastal wildlife. Barefoot might think it's comical to have sea turtles choke on plastic bags but it's no laughing matter.