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DEL.ICIO.USAn Iraq video enters the 10th District race against Jim Whitehead
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Youtube video has just made the race for the 10th District congressional seat, the first federal election since November, a tad more interesting.
The northeast Georgia district is overwhelmingly conservative. And the money leader in the 10-candidate, officially non-partisan race is former Republican state senator Jim Whitehead of Evans.
Whitehead’s topic of choice has been illegal immigration. In interviews and a first radio ad, he’s avoided the issue of Iraq. Early this month, Tom Crawford of capitolimpact.com quoted Whitehead as saying “Iraq has not been a big thing in our district.”
Someone, in some Democratic camp, wants to change that — and perhaps also wants to test the resonance of an ant-Iraq message in a Republican-dominated district.
This video link to youtube.com, labeled “Stop Whitehead,” came over the transom last night, just as the GOP debate in South Carolina kicked off.
It takes on Whitehead’s quote about the lack of interest among voters in Iraq. We don’t know who’s behind it. But the ready-for-TV production values, while nothing fancy, are excellent — which indicates there could be significant money and strategizing involved.
The ad would fit with the platform espoused by candidate Jim Marlow of Lincolnton, around whom many Democrats are rallying. We called the Marlow campaign. A spokesman said it ain’t them.
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By Princess Di
May 16, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this
ROFLing!!!!!!! Do you old geezers know how much it costs to produce broadcast-quality stuff these days??? Like, zero $. Any monkey and a MacBook. Jeez… maybe that cleaning house thing over there IS a good idea.
By SweetPea
May 16, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this
Well if any monkey with a Mac can do this, then we need MORE!!!
By Kepper
May 18, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this
Uhm… Allow me: Marlow and the Chi-Coms