Sen. Elizabeth Dole's campaign is no longer airing a commercial that has drawn national attention that ties her opponent, Democrat Kay Hagan to Boston fundraiser hosted by an organizer of the Godless Americans PAC.
Dole spokesman Dan McLagan said the campaign began taking it off the air on Friday although it still aired on a few stations on Saturday. In its place, the Dole campaign is airing a second TV commercial that deals with the same Boston fundraiser, but in a less strident way, Rob Christensen reports.
McLagan said the decision to stop airing the ad was not related to the criticism it has received not only from Democrats, but from some Repubublican conservatives as well. Hagan has called the ad "despicable."
The Dole ad decided to replace the ad with a second one after Hagan ran a TV commercial sharply criticizing the original. The original ad began airing Tuesday.
"We went to the second version of it," he said. "We knew there were would be push back on (the first ad)."
Meanwhile, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton was in Raleigh Saturday night where she attended a fund raiser for Hagan. The fundraiser was held at the home former ambasasdor Jeanette Hyde.
Update: McLagan said the ad aired between Tuesday afternoon and was still running Friday. He said that it was run enough times to be seen between eight and 10 times by every North Carolinian, or 800 to 1,000 points in industry parlance.
"We didn't pull the ad any more than we pulled any other ad that we've run that's reached saturation," he said.
He said that the campaign planned the new ad all along and was waiting for Hagan's response to air the second ad. The new ad buy was made mid-Friday.
"We had planned to wait for her response and then respond," he said.
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Re: Dole replaces Godless ad
Makes no difference "Scabby Dole !!" This poem was wrote for people like you the rotten traitor...............!!!!
The Scab
"After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab."
"A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles."
"When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out."
"No man (or woman) has a right to scab so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with. Judas was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself." A scab has not.
"Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British army." The scab sells his birthright, country, his wife, his children and his fellowmen for an unfulfilled promise from his employer.
Esau was a traitor to himself; Judas was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country; a scab is a traitor to his God, his country, his family and his class."
Author --- Jack London (1876-1916)