Posted on 10/25/2006 7:32:08 AM PDT by Grig
WATERLOO --- Republican Iowa House District 20 candidate David Wieland and Iowa House Speaker Christopher Rants of Sioux City have denounced a political advertisement released this weekend against Wieland showing what appears to be a covered cadaver on a gurney, assailing his position on stem-cell research.
Wieland said he supports adult, but not embryonic, stem-cell research, but said the ad implies "If you vote for Dave Wieland, you're going to kill people."
He and Rants called the ad a new low in the already vitriolic campaign between Wieland and Democrat Doris Kelley for the District 20 seat being vacated by the retiring Waterloo Republican Willard Jenkins.
"She (Kelley) has thrown out all bounds of decency," Wieland said today. "I have never done an attack like this on my opponent," except to refer to Kelley as a "lobbyist."
"I have never, ever seen anything that even comes close to that," Rants said "Candidates always trade barbs over their record. But I've never seen a campaign swing into saying, 'If you vote for this guy, people are going to die.' That's clearly the inference they are trying to make."
The ad, which has an Iowa Democratic Party return address, shows a young woman on oxygen apparently laying in bed. The next page shows what appears to be a covered body laying on a hospital gurney.
"We could cure her disease. But Dave Wieland opposes life saving stem-cell research," the ad states.
The ad cites as the basis of its information a candidate questionnaire from the Iowa Christian Alliance. On that survey, Wieland simply checked a box stating he supported a ban on embryonic stem cell research and human cloning.
Tom Powers, Kelley's campaign co-manager, said he approved of the ad without consulting Kelley. "It sends a message on stem cell research," he said. "When you're running for a public office and you're setting policy for a state, the voters need to seek the difference" between the candidates.
"I'll take responsibility for anything that goes out," Kelley said. "The message I stand by. The photos is where I have a problem. I told the (Iowa Democratic) Party that I did not like this type of campaigning. I do not approve of this type of campaigning, and I will do everything I can if elected to make some changes in the campaign process."
Kelley said she is ceasing this type of campaigning and asked Wieland to do the same. "I'm surprised he (Wieland) is complaining now when he has mailed out so many fliers with false information and even put that kind of information into his radio and TV ads," she said.
Kelley was upset with advertising put out by the Republican State Leadership Committee of Washington, D.C., against her campaign questioning her actions and motivation in campaigning for a 1994 referendum for Cedar Falls Utilities to add a municipal communications utility, then serving as CFU's marketing coordinator for several years. Wieland disassociated himself from those ads and said they were not helpful to his campaign.
Kelley felt he did not denounce them enough. Rants said today he called the RSLC complaining about the ads, but the ads continued. Kelley responded with other ads of her own.
"It seems like it's just this constant back and forth and it's getting a little ridiculous," Kelley said. "I have stopped it. I ask that he do the same. His campaign tactics have been very disgusting."
What a bunch of pukes.
The liberals have shown, more than ever before, what filthy, degenerate, power-mad criminals they really are.
Simple ad to counter: Show a room full of dead babies.
"Vote DEM or people will die and vote DEM themselves!"
He called her a "lobbyist" - not sure how much lower you can go except for maybe "trial lawyer."
Politics is a Blood Sport here in Iowa, and it gets a little worse every year.
Bah! Vote Dim, and Millons will die.
Just like the millionss that were
butchered, when the "Peace and Love"
DimoLeftie Hippie coward traitor Piggies
got their way in the sixties and seventies.
This is the type of thing you can expect from RATS. Of course, they want to keep baby killing legal--even through the birth process.
But where's the ACORN worker registering her to vote?
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