An actor to the max. What a grandstanding little liar. MJF can go...
USA TODAY ; October 25, 2006 Wednesday
The Fox ads are part of a larger effort by Democrats who are using the issue as another weapon against Republicans already hurting from an unpopular war in Iraq and Bush's low approval ratings.
Democrats and interest groups are using ads, campaign events and celebrities in at least 20 House, Senate and governor races to push for more federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Fox's dramatic ads are "very effective" with suburban voters, seniors and parents, says Evan Tracey of the non-partisan Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks political advertising. "It puts the Republicans on the wrong side of hope."
Other TV spots:
*Singer Sheryl Crow, a Missouri native and breast cancer survivor, appears in an ad (www.missouricures.com) sponsored by the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures, which backs a state ballot initiative to permit research on embryonic stem cells.
*In Arizona, an ad (www .dccc.org/multimedia) sponsored by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee features the granddaughter of Morris Udall, a popular congressman who died of Parkinson's disease in 1998. Loren Udall, who has the autoimmune disease lupus, says that "by voting in Congress to restrict stem cell research, (Republican Rep.) J.D. Hayworth has played politics with people's lives."