Posted on 08/18/2015 6:54:47 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway launched the first negative ad from a gubernatorial nominee on Tuesday, hitting Republican Matt Bevin on seemingly every tax issue that has emerged this year and in last years U.S. Senate primary.
The 30-second spot, titled 30 Times, begins with Bevins press conference upon launching his bid to unseat then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, telling reporters that he had no tax delinquency problem, nor have I ever.
The ad then transitions to reports of more than $100,000 owed by Bevin Brothers Manufacturing in East Hampton, Conn., earning the company a spot atop a listing of the regions tax delinquents in May 2011.
Hes been cited for failing to pay his personal taxes 30 times, a male narrator says. Now Bevin wont release his tax returns. Whats he hiding?
The spot can be viewed here:
The ad comes a week after the Democratic super PAC Kentucky Family Values released a 30-second TV spot with a similar theme alongside the same Bevin soundbite.
Bevin campaign manager Ben Hartman did not return phone and email messages seeking comment, but some of the ads claims have been previously dismissed by independent fact-checkers like FactCheck.org, which reported that Bevin paid off back taxes on his familys bell-making business after assuming control of the company in August 2011.
FactCheck.org and others have also reported that Bevins late property tax payments on a Maine vacation home was the fault of a new mortgage company, with $6,244 in back taxes paid in full by February 2009.
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I’m assuming they meant “campaign” ad vs. “nominee” ad...but it’s their headline. :-)
I would just run a ad that says “unlike Charlie Rangel, insert dems, and so many that work for the federal government”. Then state “I am running to help clean up the tax cheat problems that we have”.
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