[Dem] Ad being pulled from Paducah radio after claims on tolls rated false by station

cn|2 Pure Politics ^ | 10/24/2014 | Jacqueline Pitts

[Republican Wildcat]

A radio ad from the Kentucky House Democratic Caucus Campaign Committee is being pulled from the air in the 3rd District state House race after the group twisted the wording of the Republican candidate on tolls.

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"He told the Courier-Journal, in writing, that putting up tolls on our local roads was his chief priority,” the announcer in the ad says. “So Bridges will hike tolls for western Kentucky drivers.”

Hear the radio ad here:

Local radio station WKYQ reviewed the ad and citations, at Bridges’ request, and decided to pull the ad from their airwaves. The station said because of the citation and the fact that Rep. Watkins had a very similar answer about supporting tolls on those bridges, they had decided to pull the ad.

“And now the punchline, the ad said this was his chief priority. Both candidates were asked if elected what would be their chief priority, tolls of any kind were not mentioned by either guy,” an employee of the radio station said in an on-air segment about the ad. “So the part about the tolls on the roads isn’t even close but to say its a chief priority I feel is an out-and-out lie.”

[Republican Wildcat]

The excerpt I posted didn’t catch this - but the tolls in question were in relation to placing them on the new bridges linking Kentucky to Indiana and Ohio, neither of which are near Paducah or “western Kentucky roads”

[Russ]

Truth in Advertising laws should apply to political ads. If they can’t prove the ad is true they should be fined and the ad removed.

[skinkinthegrass]

thanks, RI ☺