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Election roundup: The family that makes commercials together
By adamg on Mon, 10/20/2014 - 11:15am
Mike Heffernan, the Republican candidate for treasurer proves his tightness with the dollar with an ad that seems to be made by his family, although it was really produced by an ad agency in Virginia.
Coakley and Baker discussed the economy, education and transportation at a debate just for them.
A pollster type discusses why a tight race in the polls would be good for Coakley.
WBUR chats with Scott Lively, who wants to bring Massachusetts back to Old Testament days. No word on his thoughts on mixing fibers, however.
Unions plan a GOTV effort to keep casinos alive. Clergy in the Newburyport area organize to kill casinos. The Globe concludes casino opponents are way overstating the impact casinos will have on the lottery.
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Comments
Visions of barn coats
and pickup trucks..
It amazes me how people fall for the same schtick every time.
Its like the ad from the guy who proclaims himself the "outsider". Not beholden to Washington special interests. He wins the election and 4 years later he is now the insider and somebody else is running the outsider campaign against him.
Rinse and repeat.
Rinse and repeat.
Fiscally responsible?
For a few hundred dollars, a craigslist ad and maybe a few pizza and any number of Emerson, BU, or Northeastern students could have made a better video. Spending a boatload on something simple is what got us into the Health Connector mess.
NEXT!
Say what you want
We know who this guy is now. So, it was a good ad.
We know he is a liar, that
We know he is a liar, that doesn't seem to be the mark of a good ad, to let the public know you are a liar and cant be trusted.
He's not a liar
As I wrote below, I watched the ad again. All he notes is that he enlisted his family to help with the ad to save money. The implication was that they made the ad, which was an untruth. Not quite a lie, which would have been a blatant statement that they made the ad.
The ad was cute. I challenge anyone to watch that and deny that. Note, that is different from watching the ad and think that Deb Goldberg is the better candidate. That is quite possible.
So are you Woodward of
So are you Woodward of Bernstein? His family didn't make his ad? Send him to a concentration camp!
It does call into question the claim
If he's saying that the family basically made the ad to save some bucks, and the ad was in fact done by professionals, how good will he be with our money?
To give the other side, actual claims were made in the ad that he in fact has the background to be a good steward of the Commonwealth's money, which is why this guy is now on my radar. Okay, that and the fact the ad was in fact pretty cute. In fact, I'm going to watch it again.