Posts
Baker’s Blue Cross role blasted
State Senate candidate Jim Haggerty rips GOP rival Lisa Baker in a new TV ad featuring an elderly woman who complains Baker “wasn’t there to help me decide between buying my medicine or buying my groceries.”
In new radio and TV spots, Haggerty accuses Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania of raising insurance premiums and cutting benefits to fund “a public relations scheme” run by Baker, who was director of Blue Cross’ nonprofit Blue Ribbon Foundation from April 2002 to October 2005.
“Can you believe Baker raked in a quarter of a million dollars to hand out oversized checks?” the narrator asks.
Lisa shot right back with a you hurt my feelings spot:
Baker immediately countered with a brand new TV ad of her own Wednesday, just a day after the Haggerty ads began airing. Baker’s ad begins with a TV playing Haggerty’s spot.
“Ah, the shameful, negative ads are here,” the narrator says in a tone that conveys he has expected as much. The words “shameful, negative, smear, distortion” emerge in capital letters, that stretch then fade from the screen.
Russ Bigus has running print ads over this issue for at least a month. Norton has the conspiracy angle.
2 comments:
This will be a referendum to watch for two reasons. First of all, there's a risk of voters misreading the question. The question is written in such a way that voting "yes" actually means "no, I don't want bottle clubs". A vote for "no" means "bring'em on". So, you could have voters mistakenly believing that "no" means no and actually end up saying "yes" to bottle clubs.
If the votes actually favor banning bottle clubs in the township, expect another court fight. The attorney for Club 10 insists that the club is grandfathered, and would not be affected by the referendum. The solicitor for the township believes otherwise. Stay tuned.
With a 30 second spot, Haggerty's only hitting the tip of this big Blue iceberg. There a lot of sleeze down below if somebody wants to look. So far, Norton is the only media source on this story.
Too bad there aren't any investigative journalists 'round these parts. I guess Elliot Weiler is too busy testing toaster ovens.
Post a Comment