The super PAC supporting George Holding for Congress is swapping out ads it has been running on television with a more timely one. This one, which will air through election day Tuesday, picks up on the theme of an ad that began airing earlier this week and was paid for by Holding’s campaign committee.
Both ads jump on opponent Paul Coble’s remarks last week that Holding, the former U.S. attorney in Raleigh, went after former Gov. Mike Easley to promote his own political ambitions. The Holding camp saw it as an opportunity to stress Holdings’ tough-on-crime credentials. Both TV ads say Coble’s comment shows he’s worried.
“Desperate men do desperate deeds,” the new ad says.
It is paid for by the American Foundations Committee, a super PAC comprised almost entirely of Holding’s family and friends. By law, it can raise unlimited money to help a candidate but it can’t coordinate with a candidate’s campaign. It can, however, use information that is already in the public sphere, such as Coble’s published remarks.
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George and his mudballs are disgusting
May 4, 2012 - 7:21am — Conservative1I think everyone has had enough of George's ads. He has tried all sorts of "mudballs" as he calls it, and nothing has stuck. His family formed this superpac to obviously skirt the $2500 individual contribution limit in an effort to buy their little nephew George a new toy--a seat in Congress. Paul Coble has worked for everything he's got. Not to mention, Coble's for tort reform, and George, the lawyer, is clearly not.
Funny Money
May 3, 2012 - 9:33pm — Curious_GeorgeYou know what's funny about George's money? The only reason Jesse Helms even hired old George is because he's a Holding--they've got more money than God and less sense than a Thom Tillis staffer in a room full of lobbyists.
As greedy and calculating as the old man may have been, if Jesse had thought for one minute that this fool would have spent all this cash to defeat his own kin he would have had George strangled in his crib...