Moore ad hits Perdue at the barbershop

Richard Moore has a new radio ad that his campaign apparently doesn't want everyone to hear.

The ad, a one-minute spot airing on radio stations such as FOXY 107.1/104.3, features two men in a barbershop discussing items featuring a Rebel flag at a convenience store owned by family members of Beverly Perdue.

Moore's campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor has routinely made copies of its ads available. A spokeswoman declined today to make the radio ad available. Dome recorded it off FOXY's online stream.

Read text from the ad and the campaign's responses after the jump.

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"Have you heard about that old Confederate junk she's selling in them stores she owns?" one man asks.

"What junk?"

"Perdue's stores sells those hats with Rebel flags and that Confederate junk."

"Perdue sells Confederate stuff?"

"Yeah caps and beer holders that say 'Old times will not be forgotten.'"

Perdue's campaign said her husband has partial ownership in the "The Right Stuff Food Stores" in Georgia, which are run by Perdue's stepson. Last week the Moore campaign held a news conference in which they produced images of a handful of Confederate beer koozies and caps among other merchandise not uncommon in convience stores.

Several African American supporters of Perdue, including former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt, have appeared in ads denouncing Moore's attacks.

As the ad continues, one man mentions a law Perdue voted against that would have made it easier for the state to investigate hate groups. Perdue has said her vote was a mistake.

"And Perdue wants to be our governor?"

"Well maybe in 1958, but not in 2008."

Update: Perdue's campaign said that saying Perdue is selling the material is false. Perdue has no dealings with the company. Her husband is part owner but draws no salary and is not involved in day-to-day activity.

"It’s a shame that North Carolina voters have to be exposed to this kind of race-baiting campaign, and it’s shameful that Richard Moore would stoop to this level," Perdue spokesman David Kochman said. "Richard Moore is using patently false information to smear Bev Perdue and he knows it."

Moore said in an interview that the ad raises important questions for voters. As of February 2007, Perdue was listed in Georgia records as a secretary of the corporation. Sale of the merchandise is relevant because Perdue says she has supported civil rights her entire life, he said.

"I think most people would say that someone who is selling Confederate paraphernalia with the 'Old times will not be forgotten' in blazes, that those two statements would be hard to reconcile," Moore said.