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  • Not Quite Down and Out (NM-Completely Bogus campaign ad by Dems in NM-1 race)

    10/23/2010 6:10:14 PM PDT · by CedarDave · 8 replies
    The Albuquerque Journal ^ | October 21, 2010 | Michael Coleman
    When 69-year-old Liz Sumruld looked into a television camera for a Rep. Martin Heinrich campaign ad and said she "couldn't get by" without her $530 monthly Social Security check, she never dreamed her own lifestyle would become an issue in the 1st Congressional District campaign. But that's what happened when word trickled out that she and her husband, Tommy, own a South Valley home with an indoor swimming pool and a garage full of classic cars. Barela contends that Sumruld's claim in the Heinrich TV ad that she "couldn't get by" without her $530 Social Security check is deceitful. "It's...