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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
News / Biz Sen. Burr not worried about oily ads
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:07 AM
Seen the oily (and, admit it, funny) ad about North Carolina's Sen. Richard Burr and his coffer-filling corporate buds?
Well, Sen. Bur calls the current ad — paid for by the League of Conservation Voters, VoteVets.org Action Fund, the Sierra Club and the Service Employees International Union — "gutter politics" and claims their attempts at "character assassination" won't work.
Of course, he's not denying the truth: He did accept nearly half a million dollars from oil companies. But, I guess that's non-gutter politics in his book. Suppose that depends on who you ask.
Here's the latest oily ad, and a couple more for good measure:
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