Oberweis Makes Boneheaded Campaign Move
The Chicago Tribune reports "Republican governor candidate Jim Oberweis is launching two TV ads that use made-up newspaper headlines to attack front-runner Judy Baar Topinka's integrity."
"The words are displayed as if they appeared on the front pages of the Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the State Journal-Register of Springfield."
Campaign manager Joe Wiegand said the "text is excerpted" from articles from those publications. A Tribune review of the stories in question couldn't find the exact words presented in the ads.
This is wrong in so many levels from a campaign side. Oberweis is attacking the integrity of his opponent using questionable tactics. This is backfiring on him. Instead of hurting Topinka's integrity it is smearing his own.
In the end only one basic rule of campaigns was broken. Don't make things up, don't lie.
"The words are displayed as if they appeared on the front pages of the Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the State Journal-Register of Springfield."
Campaign manager Joe Wiegand said the "text is excerpted" from articles from those publications. A Tribune review of the stories in question couldn't find the exact words presented in the ads.
This is wrong in so many levels from a campaign side. Oberweis is attacking the integrity of his opponent using questionable tactics. This is backfiring on him. Instead of hurting Topinka's integrity it is smearing his own.
In the end only one basic rule of campaigns was broken. Don't make things up, don't lie.
posted by PoliticalNut at 8:17 AM
1 Comments:
Not a good move by the milk man. But I don't trust Judy one bit, she's a pro-baby killing moderate appeaser, and she won't get my vote.
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