The campaign for Colorado senate hopeful Bob Schaffer has been nothing if not silent. Unlike most 21st-century candidates for public office, Mr. Schaffer includes no specific information on his website about his positions or plans for Colorado should he be elected.
Perhaps his campaign manager is hoping to avoid another ‘macaca moment’ such as Allen's unscripted remark virally blasted across the intertubes and the MSM.
Thus it was with great expectation that many of the good citizens of Colorado were awaiting some word from this man, who would be our senator, about his campaign and what he stands for.
We need wait no longer. Today the Schaffer campaign released its first video. Short on substance the ad makes up for that deficit in raw humor.
Now, an embarrassed Dick Waddams, campaign manger, has noted that the ad has been pulled.
More after the jump
From Colorado Pols
Diligent fact-checkers have found that the mountain featured in this ad, the theme of which is "Colorado is My Life," is in fact Alaska's world-famous Denali, otherwise known as Mt. McKinley. Which isn't in Colorado, as most elementary school students know. Oops!
ProgressNow issued a statement demanding that the ad be pulled, and according to Politics West--and an update on Colorado Pols, now it has
A frustrated Dick Wadhams, Schaffer's campaign manager, conceded the mistake and said the ad would be pulled and re-edited with Colorado mountains. Wadhams said that the campaign raised the issue with their media consultant during rough cuts, directing them to make sure the mountain shots were authentic - something that obviously didn't happen. But for an ad meant to underscore Schaffer's strong ties to his home state, it's exactly the kind of screw-up the campaign doesn't want to make. This is going to be an incredibly hard-fought campaign and one the Republicans desperately need to win. Why give your Democratic opponent those kinds of easy hits?