BALTIMORE (AP) — The White House on Wednesday asked a political action committee that supports Maryland Rep. Donna Edwards’ Senate bid to pull an advertisement on gun control for being “misleading.”
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Edwards’ opponent in the Democratic primary who is targeted in the ad, denounced it as “a new low in Maryland politics.”
Jennifer Friedman, a spokeswoman for President Barack Obama, said the Working for Us PAC was asked to pull the ad by David Simas, the White House political director.
“He made clear that the use of the president’s image and statement in this context were misleading,” Friedman said.
The ad shows Obama tearing up while talking about Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The television ad says Van Hollen supported a campaign finance disclosure bill that didn’t include the National Rifle Association. The ad also says the congressman met with NRA lobbyists to put a loophole in the bill to exempt them, while Edwards stood up to the gun lobby.
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2 comments:
She has always been deceiving, so what is new. Van Hollen is just as bad. He will not accept phone calls or other means of contacting him unless you live in his district.
Why would you call a rep who isn't in your district? Once he a Senator then he represents all of Maryland.
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