Posted on 09/02/2014 2:35:24 PM PDT by Din Maker
The highly competitive Alaska Senate race turned vitriolic over the holiday weekend after Democratic incumbent Mark Begich's campaign released a brutal new TV ad that tied Republican challenger Dan Sullivan to circumstances surrounding a horrific Anchorage murder case.
On Friday, the Begich campaign began airing the ad -- now pulled from the airwaves --which featured a retired Anchorage police officer recounting the circumstances of a 2013 crime. In that case, a man named Jerry Active stands accused of murdering an elderly couple and sexually assaulting their 2-year-old granddaughter and the girl’s 91-year-old great-grandmother.
Active had been previously convicted of the attempted sexual assault of a minor in 2009 -- a crime that should have led to an eight-year-minimum prison sentence, due to an earlier felony conviction -- but he was released early because of a faulty plea deal in 2010 that did not take into account his previous record.
The Begich ad suggested that Sullivan deserved some of the blame for the sentencing error, since he was state attorney general at the time that the plea deal was made. The Sullivan campaign has said that a failure to place the prior conviction in the court system database occurred before the Senate candidate became attorney general.
“I don’t know how long Dan Sullivan lived in Alaska, but I know what he did as attorney general,” the retired officer says in the ad. “He let a lot of sex offenders get off with light sentences.”
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Flop sweat. This reeks of desperation.
There will be a day of reckoning and the filthy DemocRATS are going to pay for everything they’ve done.
What the heck does a sentencing error have to do with willfully letting convicted murderers out on weekend passes?
Seems to be procedural error versus idiot policy.
What was INACCURATE in the Willie Horton commercials?
If Begich is making an ad as accurate as the Willie Horton ads were, then Begich has EVERY RIGHT to do so.
...and our side also has EVERY RIGHT to tell the truth about Democrats. It is only OUR PROBLEM if we fail to fight them on their own terms.
Well, this will let us know if Sullivan is a fighter or a wuss.
The retired Anchorage police officer who made the ad needs his ass sued as well.
BTTT!
Because we know that republicans are always weak on child rape.
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Thats actually his brother that wrote the book on Haarp
NEVER,,,Democrat Voters are as VILE and EVIL as the people they vote for....EVIL.
Just the congresscritter father perishing in a plane crash.
Democrat voters are too vile to know they are vile.
What was INACCURATE in the Willie Horton commercials?
I agree. I hate it when news articles from nominal conservatives pick up the patois of the Left.
Another one that annoys the h*ll out of me is “swiftboating”. The Swift boat guys were all there in SE Asia risking their lives unlike Horseface who was just passing through to pick up some credentials. No one has ever shown they were wrong.
Yep, totally true on Switftboating. It’s like we can tell the truth when we campaign...but only sometimes.
...and also McCarthyism...we figured there was more to it than some nutcase Senator calling everyone he saw a Commie - and now we KNOW FOR CERTAIN that everyone he called a Commie, was really a Commie. Yet they STILL use that term to tar people.
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