Pulled this from Muth’s Truths. I first blogged about the “outrage” here.

The widow of the Nevada state Senate minority leader who Sue Lowden defeated in 1992 primarily over that senator’s vote to jack up his government pension by 300 percent in 1991, is upset that Lowden used that fact in her recent television commercial.

But the claim was 100 percent accurate. Legislators that year DID try to “enrich themselves” by voting for the pension hike. Only after public outrage did legislators repeal their sweetheart deal in a special session. Facts are stubborn things.

Speaking of Lowden and TV commercials: The rule of thumb in campaigning is that once you go up on TV, you have to stay up. You can’t start running ads in February, then stop running ads in March and April, and then go back up in May. If so, you lose all the momentum.

But I was told this week that the Lowden campaign is up and staying up, which means she’ll likely continue to build a lead over her opponents who aren’t preparing to go up on TV themselves until after Easter. But by then it might be too late.

Fellow Republican challenger John Chachas, however, is expected to go up on TV in the next week of two – which ought to move his polling numbers out of the basement and into contention by the Ides of March.

Below is the ad in question.

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