Brian Melendez led Minnesota Democratic Party is considering a campaign to take on couple of “advertisements giving voice to the sentiments of Iraq war veterans and Gold Star Families who support the war.” In one of the meetings held last week Melendez called the first one, “un-American, untruthful and a lie.”
The two advertisements can be viewed here. The first of the two ads is devoted to the Iraq war veterans; the second to the Gold Star Families, featuring Merrilee Carlson of St. Paul. Mrs. Carlson’s son Michael was killed in Iraq last year; the Wall Street Journal published Michael’s “credo” this past Memorial Day
The ad was paid for by the Progress for America Voter Fund. It’s a conservative advocacy group with close ties to the Bush Administration, running issue ads much like the liberal group moveon.org.
Right now, Minnesotans are a test audience, and this is the only state in the country where the ad is running.
Via Powerlineblog [here]
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