Just a quick post for these two ads below that are absolutely the two slimiest I have seen out of either camp this year.
Quote:
Republican Sen. Gordon Smith has enlisted the victim of a serial rapist to appear in an emotional TV ad accusing his Democratic rival, Jeff Merkley, of failing to crack down on serious sex offenders.
Tiffany Edens, who became well-known in Oregon as she fought convicted rapist Richard Troy Gillmore’s attempt to win parole, charges that Merkley voted in the state Legislature against extending the statute of limitations on rape.
“Jeff Merkley,” Edens says, staring into the camera as the commercial concludes, “you should have voted to protect victims, not rapists.”
Video below the jump…
I can’t believe Smith would stoop this low…
what’s the truth behind the vote?
What’s the situation with the media in Oregon? Do they wax poetically over the “moderate” Smith like in, say, Maine, or could the facts about Merkley’s record get out there.