Checking the email this morning, I saw a new message from MoveOn.org asking for money. Being a high-school student, I normally don't check these things, but I soon realized it involved my district, CT-5.
MoveOn recently launched some attack ads harshly critisizing Nancy Johnson (R-Pharma) on her involvement in drafting and promoting the recent Medicare changes. Rep. Johnson replied by launching far harsher attack ads of her own, dragging out Murphy's 'connection' with an organization (MoveOn) that called Bush a Nazi. Obviously this was all trumped up, and Murphy replied that he wasn't involved with MoveOn in any way, though of course he never did say he disapproved of the ads.
Well apparantly MoveOn was using my district as a test bed, and was wildly sucessful.
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