The state Senate's Republicans have launched their first televised attack ad against Long Island's only Democrat in the delegation, rookie Sen. Craig Johnson of Port Washington. There's no Republican nominee yet, but the ad features a game-show host talking to a cardboard cutout of Johnson as "contestant" and peppering the life-sized likeness with slanted "questions" about his purportedly voting for moving school funds from LI to NYC, cutting hospital funds and imposing higher property taxes on "hundreds of thousands" of Long Islanders. The conclusion is his record is "unspeakable."
Not only does the Johnson camp respond that the contentions about his record are specious, they note he's also known to talk -- at some length on -- most things. The Johnson side also points out that supposed "grass roots" local committees are coordinated with the Albany-based GOP in linking Web sites to the new commercial. Here's the ad, which is of a piece with the earlier state Republican spots attacking rookie Westchester Democrat Andrea Stewart-Cousins:
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Did they hire the guys who did the "tobacco is wacko" commercials to do this ad? Warning: the GOP is bad for your health.
By the way, aren't these the same guys that pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars from Balboni's district after their candidate could not win? How much is this costing?
Why don't they use this energy to try to lower my tax bill.