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* Ignoring complaints about their last ad, which used local Democratic Party officials, the DCCC is running a new ad blasting Congressman Bobby Schilling featuring those same local Democrats…
* Script…
42 years I’ve been working?
Paying all those years into Medicare.
That’s part of my future.
Congressman Bobby Schilling voted to cut Medicare, costing seniors sixty four hundred dollars more per year for health care…
People can’t afford $6400 a year.
$6400 is not affordable.
…Just to fund tax cuts for millionaires.
I don’t know how we’d handle that.
There’s just no way.
Bob just doesn’t get it.
We worked all our lives.
And to take that away from us now would be a lie.
Congressman, you broke a promise to me.
* And AFSCME is also getting involved in the district with this TV ad…
* Script…
Bobby Schilling’s negative attacks on Cheri Bustos? Pure fiction. The facts? Another hundred and seventy Illinois jobs going to China. After Bobby Schilling voted to protect tax breaks that help companies ship jobs overseas. Yep. After all the jobs we’ve lost in Illinois, Schilling voted to help outsource even more. With Bobby Schilling in Congress, the truth hurts. The real story? Cheri Bustos is a working mom who’ll stand up for the middle class and fight for Illinois jobs.
posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 12:59 pm
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Here’s what I don’t get about the complaints. Are they not supposed to use their supporters in ads?
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:23 pm
Yes, especially when Schilling supporters in his ads are financial contributors.
Comment by Lil Enchilada Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:28 pm
financial contributors? the none guy contributed a total of $400….puhleeze. Hardly Sheldon Addleson. Any real person who wouldn’t plunk down some hard earned cash in support of their candidate SHOULDNT be IN a commercial for them either.
Comment by in the know Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:41 pm
I would not be willing to venture Mitt Romney’s standard $10K bet but I would certainly bet a small amount that if you polled “Cheri Bustos claims that she’s one of us but she used Democratic party bosses from Chicago in her tv ads” (even ignoring that she did not in fact run the ad) it would not crack 30% total negativity (in other words, completely ineffective).
Offer good for anyone willing to poll on it. Email me to arrange it!
Comment by Will Caskey Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:46 pm
I just don’t see complaints about process being effective. I’d like to see more polling out the 17th. I’m surprised a national polling firm hasn’t polled it yet, considering it is one of the top 25 races for the House.
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 1:55 pm
Who is SUPPOSED to be in these political commercials?
Politicians?
Friends?
Family?
Local business owners?
Constituents?
Supporters?
Contributors?
Professional actors?
Do you know what I would like to see in these ads? How about the truth? How about some FACTS? That would be really something to talk about then.
Comment by Lil Enchilada Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:00 pm
That anti-Schilling ad would be much more effective with one or two compelling voices, rather than shifting rapid fire among five (or however many) people. Maybe they think that in this Twitter age, folks can’t focus on anything for more than a second or two.
Comment by Coach Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:02 pm
… meant the DCCC ad
Comment by Coach Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:03 pm
Caskey is right. You don’t need to take him up on his bet because it has already been tested and that language / juxtaposition doesn’t work against anyone but a blank slate, unknown candidate.
Comment by AngrySicilian Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:12 pm
I got polled last night on this race.
Comment by Aldyth Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:27 pm
By who?
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:50 pm
The same people? The same party hacks pretending to be ordinary voters? Some of you guys don’t have a problem with that? You’re coming up with feeble excuses why a candidate is deliberately misrepresenting supporters?
Honestly, stop coming up with lame excuses why Bustos is spending a fortune on this disingenuous bullcrap, and speak the truth…
These ads are misrepresenting constituents and deliberately pulling a con job on voters.
You’d be against it in a heartbeat if the other guy did it, so justifying it when your gal is doing it is damn wrong. Sad you don’t see that.
Comment by VanillaMan Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:55 pm
VanillaMan,
Couple things…
1)DCCC not Bustos campaign. Sure they coordinate, but remember when Schilling tried to disatance himself from the country club ad, because it was the NRCC? You can’t have it both ways.
2)Did you know that some commercials employ actors? Sometimes even the doctors that appear in medical commercials don’t actually have MDs.
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 2:59 pm
I used to be a Schilling supporter myself. He has been a huge disappointment to me as an independent voter. I recently met Bustos and though I’m not a huge fan, I’m ready to make a change. These television commercials irritate me more than anything else. The NRCC has made the City of East Moline and their elected officials look like saps.
Comment by Lil Enchilada Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:09 pm
You don’t get better commercials from your team until you stand up and are equally critical of what your team puts out.
Those DCCC amateurs totally miffed up Halvorson’s 2010 run. Boobs, all of them.
Those bozos probably couldn’t name the Quad Cities, let alone run a campaign in them.
Comment by VanillaMan Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:14 pm
Anonymous 2:50 PM: I couldn’t tell. I was asked about the president’s race, what party I consider myself to be with or independent, and whether I would vote for Schilling or Bustos. Sometimes, I can tell which way the poll was leaning by the way questions are worded, especially policy poll. I simply couldn’t figure that out with this one, since it stuck strictly with candidates and non-leading questions.
Comment by Aldyth Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:15 pm
I forgot to mention that the poll was automated and the caller ID indicated from Kewanee.
Comment by Aldyth Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:16 pm
–You’re coming up with feeble excuses why a candidate is deliberately misrepresenting supporters?–
I wonder what that sentence means.
As far as naming the Quad-Cities, you have to be careful. At least five cities — Davenport, Rock Island, Bettendorf, Moline and East Moline — believe they have a claim to one of the four spots.
Comment by wordslinger Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:27 pm
“Those DCCC amateurs totally miffed up Halvorson’s 2010 run.”
…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjwaqZfjIY
Comment by Will Caskey Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:31 pm
Totally agree Wordslinger.
I would say it is Bettendorf, Davenport, Moline and Rock Island… But East Moline’s city slogan is “One of the Quad Cities”
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 3:39 pm
In Illinois and Iowa: three of the four Quad Cities—Moline and Rock Island in Illinois and Davenport in Iowa—were formerly known as the Tri-Cities, before the inclusion of East Moline, Illinois and later, Bettendorf, Iowa
Comment by Lil Enchilada Wednesday, Oct 10, 12 @ 4:30 pm
Like the Big Ten and Romney’s Tax plans, the Quad Cities do not obey arithmetic…
Comment by D.P. Gumby Thursday, Oct 11, 12 @ 4:40 pm