New Lowden Ad Slams Reid, Opponents for “lies and dirty tricks”
U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden's new TV ad slams Sen. Harry Reid and her GOP opponents for using "lies and dirty tricks" and mocking her for saying people can barter with doctors.
The Democratic Party and Reid's re-election campaign have made fun of Lowden for defending her bartering idea by saying that in the old days people even traded chickens for health care. YouTube videos lampooning Lowden have been riding the talk show and Internet circuit for a month, ever since she first suggested bartering during a town hall meeting in Mesquite.
In her new ad, Lowden takes on both Reid and her main Republican opponent, Danny Tarkanian, who criticized her for donations she made to Reid's campaigns during the 1980s.
"Why are Harry Reid and my opponents attacking me?" she asks in the ad. "Because my conservative ideas are a threat to career politicians like them."
Lowden adds: "They want to make this about chickens and checks – a check I wrote decades ago and a statement they’ve taken out of context."
"That’s what’s wrong with Washington – Lies and dirty tricks," says Lowden, who's seen standing in between two TVs showing changing images of Reid, Tarkanian and bits from a TV attack ad against her that shows people making fun of Lowden.
"It’s time we pulled the plug on these boys," Lowden finishes, unplugging the TVs.
Lowden sent out copies of the ad in a fund-raising appeal to supporters, asking for money to keep the ad on the air.
"My opponents, Harry Reid, big union bosses and the Washington establishment are hard at work distorting my record and trying to defeat me with the same old tired playbook they dust off every time they are down," Lowden writes in the fund-raising appeal. "But I'm not afraid of their false attacks and scare tactics. Their attacks only strengthen my resolve because it means that our positive, conservative ideas are still winning. They know that my business experience and conservative record is a threat to career candidates and politicians. They know I'll shake up that Washington establishment culture they love so much."
