Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor has a powerful new ad highlighting his Republican opponent's vote against the Violence Against Women Act. The ad hits Rep. Tom Cotton hard—deservedly so—but the tone, coming from domestic violence shelter director Paulette Hill, is much more in sorrow than in anger:
I'm the director of a 24-hour emergency domestic violence shelter. We've got to do something to break this cycle of violence, and Tom Cotton is not doing anything to help.
Congressman Cotton voted against protecting women and children from domestic violence. He was the only Republican or Democrat from the state of Arkansas to vote this way. He voted to cut the funding to shelters.
There's a big difference between Mark Pryor and Tom Cotton. One wants to protect women and children. The other doesn't.
Cotton has already been running ads lying about the farm bill to explain his unpopular vote against that. It will be interesting to see if he comes up with a new set of lies to explain his vote against the Violence Against Women Act.
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