Now, Mark Green has released his AG ad. It's posted on his website. The script is below. It'll be running upstate, along with Andrew Cuomo's ad and Jeanine Pirro's ad from last week.
A couple of notable things, at first glance. First, the ad is all Green talking about his record, with one veiled jab at the end at Cuomo's lack of legal experience. It's a basic intro for upstate voters who aren't as familiar with Green as downstaters. Cuomo's ad does the same thing, but depends completely on a narrator. The Green people aren't worried about the impression their candidate makes on camera, in your family room. Are the Cuomo people?
Second....
Cuomo's ad worked in shots of him with Bill Clinton and Eliot Spitzer. Green is on his own. Does that mean Spitzer is keeping his distance, or is it a political calculation? At least, it allows Green advisor Hank Sheinkopf to put this dig at Cuomo in the press release:
"Mark relies only on himself and his extraordinary record of accomplishment in two attorney general-like offices. Contrast that with Andrew Cuomo’s ad where he tries to trick New Yorkers into believing that such popular Democrats as Bill Clinton and Eliot Spitzer are supporting him. They aren’t and neither will New York voters.”
Here's the Green script:
MARK GREEN: "As a young public interest lawyer, I took on congressional and corporate corruption. Then as consumer commissioner, I shut down big tobacco ads targeting our kids. As the elected public advocate, I stopped companies from discriminating against women who were domestic violence victims. Reduced racial profiling. Made hospitals more accountable and our health better. Even kicked the mob out of the garbage industry. I’m running for attorney general because the job requires an experienced people’s lawyer. In more than name only."