Only one of the four major Republican candidates for governor, Bob Orr, says he has seen a new ad from the N.C. Republican Party that attacks Democratic gubernatorial candidates Richard Moore and Beverly Perdue as being too extreme for North Carolina.
Orr, a former N.C. Supreme Court justice, said the party should not run the ad, reports David Ingram.
"There are numerous grounds based upon the issues and their records to attack Moore and Perdue," he said in a statement. "We do not need to spend limited media dollars on some tenuous link between the two Democratic candidates for governor and Reverend Wright."
The ad uses video of Barack Obama's former minister, Jeremiah Wright, to criticize Moore and Perdue for endorsing Obama. Expected Republican presidential nominee John McCain also has asked the state GOP not to run the ad.
The other three major Republican candidates had no comment.
A spokesman for Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory said he "has been busy on the campaign trail all day today, and hasn't yet had a chance to view the ad. Honestly, he probably won't get a chance to view it until late tonight, or tomorrow."
A spokesman for state Sen. Fred Smith of Johnston County said, "Fred has no comment nor has he seen the ad."
Bill Graham, a Salisbury lawyer, said, "I haven't seen it. I don't know boo turkey about it."


Re: Orr says GOP should not run ad
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