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Massachusetts: Tv Ads

Mon, 11/03/2008 - 13:02

Question 1 opponents emphasize effect on schools in latest ad

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

The Coalition for our Communities, the organization opposing Question 1, is up with another TV ad that emphasizes the impact the measure would have on public schools.

The ad features a testimony from Chrissy Reeder, a teacher from Mansfield, on how the ballot question, which would abolish the state income tax, would cut school budgets.

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Sun, 11/02/2008 - 12:12

Beatty: Campaign going exactly as planned

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

Republican U.S. Senate challenger Jeff Beatty said Sunday that his campaign to defeat John Kerry is going exactly as planned.

In a telephone interview with PolitickerMA.com on the way to the first of three campaign events on Sunday, Beatty said he knew all along that they would have to make a move late in the race to close the gap with Kerry.

"This is exactly the way we knew the plan had to unfold," Beatty said, "that we were going to have to rise up in the last days of the campaign."

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Fri, 10/31/2008 - 11:58

Question 3 proponents up with new ad statewide

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

The group backing Question 3, the measure that would eliminate dog racing in Massachusetts, is up with a new TV ad that is running statewide through the election on Tuesday.

The ad is the Committee to Protect Dogs' second TV ad and is running statewide on all broadcast channels in Boston, all broadcast channels in Springfield and on cable in both the Boston area and western Massachusetts, according to the committee.

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Tue, 10/28/2008 - 12:07

Bech hits Olver in second ad

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

In his second TV ad, Republican challenger Nathan Bech criticizes Congressman John Olver for not working for the families of Massachusetts' 1st Congressional District.

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Tue, 10/28/2008 - 11:51

Bech launches first TV ad, emphasizing ‘change’ message

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

Nathan Bech, the West Springfield Republican challenging Congressman John Olver, launched the first of two ads Tuesday.

The ad stresses change, a common message in this year's election cycle.

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Tue, 10/28/2008 - 08:09

Olver emphasizes public service in second ad

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

Congressman John Olver is running a second TV ad that emphasizes his work increasing veterans healthcare and college financial aid, developing renewable energy and fighting home foreclosure.

Olver, an Amherst Democrat, is being challenged this year by West Springfield Republican Nathan Bech.

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Mon, 10/27/2008 - 14:29

Frank hits Republicans, O’Reilly, in second ad

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

In his second ad of the election cycle, Congressman Barney Frank criticizes Republicans for being at the root of the current financial crisis.

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Mon, 10/27/2008 - 13:29

With ‘elephants’ ad, Frank calls for an end to the ‘circus on Wall Street’

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

Barney Frank's new ad for his re-election campaign is sure to turn heads.

The ad, the first of two ads Frank is running, features vintage footage of elephants as a deep-voiced narrator heaps blame on Republicans for their role in the current financial crisis.

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Mon, 10/27/2008 - 09:09

Olver’s ‘been everwhere’

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

UPDATED: In his first of two planned tv ads this cycle, Congressman John Olver stresses his travels across the Bay State's large 1st Congressional District to the tune of "I've been Everywhere."

The ad begins with Olver sitting with a guitar. "I'm John Olver," the Amherst Democrat says, "and I approve this ad so voters from Adams to Ware will know that I've been everywhere."

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Fri, 10/24/2008 - 11:00

Beatty up with second tv ad

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

Republican U.S. Senate challenger Jeff Beatty is up with his second television ad.

The ad features Beatty speaking directly to the camera. Beatty says "it's time to replace John Kerry with one of us" and highlights biography - from his being shot down in a helicopter on a rescue mission in Grenada to his work as a counterterrorism consultant.

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