Buckeye State Blog - OH House-92: More Disgusting Republican Mailings [UPDATED] - Comments

Where is everyone coming from?

David Potts — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:34:26 -0700

This post is getting a huge amount of traffic, but I can't find out where it's coming from. Could someone enlighten me?

Same old, same old from the GOP

Woodguy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:54:42 -0700

They are running pretty much the same campaign against Darlene Dunn in Ohio House District 46. They have the money to saturate the Toledo airwaves with this complete nonsense. No ideas, no facts, no ideology, just misinformation and slander.

ACORN from Barack.via Huffington

barbiesnow — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:15:53 -0700

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/smears-contradicted-obama_n_132098.html Yesterday, unfortunately, I saw several of Ohio's citizens who had attended a McCain/Palin rally in Strongsville.Of their many accusations was the one about ACORN..guess there must be a lot of stuff hitting the mail this week.. Anyway..it is totally false as the above Huff Post states..Try getting it out to local papers..

ACORN from Barack.via Huffington

barbiesnow — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:15:45 -0700

With their finger on the pulse......

Notrol — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:41:23 -0700

Out of touch? Hardly!

Look around. Feel the frustration floating in the air? Feel the subterranean current of anger and hate, the pressure building with no outlet?

Here you go!

"Listen to us Joe and Sally Potatosalad, you may not be able to stop the foreclosures or loss of all your retirement savings or the kid's college fund, but BY GOD we Republicans will give you somebody to lash out at- THIS MURDERER's ALLY!"

This is ~~slander~~ "negative campaigning" elevated to art form. Social engineering that would make a hacker drool. Getting people to vote against their own interest by tricking them into venting their frustration against the wrong entity.

Priceless! Donald Segretti is smiling........

OH House-92: More Disgusting Republican Mailings [UPDATED]

David Potts — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:17:53 -0700

The other day I posted a homophobic mailing sent out by Bob Bennett, and in response someone forwarded me another disgusting mailing. This one targets Debbie Phillips’s opposition to the death penalty, and it does so in a very crude and dishonest way.

The front:

Inside Top:

Inside Bottom:

But instead of simply saying Phillips opposes the death penalty, they try and make it appear like she wants this guy to walk free.

This ad is a load of crap. I oppose the death penalty (two wrongs don’t make a right anyone?), but that sure as hell doesn’t mean I support people like Mundt.

But even more important, the people of Ohio are struggling to find jobs and pay thier debts at this point. The fact that the Republicans are spending so much time bringing up these fringe issues in such a slanderous way shows just how out of touch they are.

Update: Please consider donating to Debbie Phillips so she can fight off these attacks.

Update #2: Ezra Klein has commented on this mailing, saying "I think this is probably the dirtiest mailer I've seen this cycle". I'd still say that this one (mentioned above) is a close second.