A Democratic TV Ad called the first of a continuing barrage aimed at "keeping these Republican scandals in front of Ohioans"is receiving TV news coverage in Ohio.
The Ohio Democratic Party began airing a television commerical across Ohio yesterday that takes aim at the culture of corruption that 16 years of one-party rule has created in Ohio.
The ad questions whether Ohio has a 'pay-to-play' or 'pay-to-steal' state government. The bottom line: with Taft/Montgomery/Petro and Blackwell, Ohio's money is down the drain.
Time has been purchased on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and ONN, but the ad is receiving coverage as news on all the local channels in Columbus tonight.
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From today's Columbus Dispatch:
Sensing a scandal-laced opportunity to make political gains in GOP-controlled Ohio in 2006, the Democratic National Committee is poised to pour money into the state, according to Dennis L. White, chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party.
After meeting in Washington yesterday with DNC Chairman Howard Dean and the six Democrats in Ohio's congressional delegation, White said the national party promised "substantial resources" this year and in 2006 to help Democrats capitalize on the Republican scandals.
"There's definitely an opportunity there," said DNC spokesman Luis Miranda. "That's why we're investing in the state party."
On Tuesday, the state Democratic Party began airing a 30-second cable TV ad saying that Taft and other GOP politicians funneled state money to Noe and other politically connected donors and ignored the state's economic problems.
White said the TV spot is the first of a continuing barrage aimed at "keeping these Republican scandals in front of Ohioans."