Let's all play ?Rate the Ad? - Capitol Fax.com

* Democratic Cheri Bustos has a new TV ad running in the 17th District. Rate it?

* Republican incumbent Congressman Bobby Schilling?s campaign responded to the ad via press release this morning?

Like the PR executive she is, Bustos has remade herself to such an extent she appears virtually unrecognizable in this professionally shot, stage produced ad.

?Welcome to the race, Cheri Bustos,? Jon Schweppe, communications director for the Schilling campaign, said. ?For far too many voters, this ad will be the first time they hear of Alderwoman Bustos. Our campaign got started twenty months ago, and voters have noticed Bobby Schilling out meeting the people, while Cheri Bustos has been missing in action. The Bustos campaign will have their work cut out for them, down double-digits with only 70 days remaining.?

Schweppe also responded to a couple of Bustos? claims in her new ad.

Bustos: ?I?m running for Congress because Washington?s got its priorities all wrong, putting the special interests ahead of the middle class.?

?It?s odd that Bustos wants to bite the hand that feeds her, given the fact that special interests have almost exclusively funded her campaign,? Schweppe said. ?Bustos has received more than $100,000 from the radical pro-partial birth abortion PAC EMILY?s List, and she?s spent more time in Chicago and Washington, DC dining with wealthy limousine liberals than she has in-district meeting with the people.?

Bustos: ??it?s time to put Main Street ahead of Wall Street.?

?Cheri Bustos didn?t put Main Street first, she put Bustos Parkway first,? Schweppe said. ?She has a record, and it certainly didn?t serve working families in East Moline. Bustos voted repeatedly for a barrage of tax increases and fee hikes, while she spent $625,000 of taxpayer money on an earmarked pet project to build a luxurious parkway right outside her home.?

Discuss.

* Related?

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* 17th District: Schilling donates PAC money from Akin

* Press Release: Why Was Cheri Bustos So Mean to East Moline Taxpayers? - Bustos voted for more taxes, more fees, and more spending

Source: http://capitolfax.com/2012/08/27/lets-all-play-rate-the-ad-and-the-response/

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