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October 07, 2010 05:58 PM UTC

Oops! (Wrong Salazar Edition)

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As the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Gary Harmon reports:

The ad five times identifies the current Interior secretary and former Colorado senator as “Congressman Ken Salazar.”

U.S. Rep. John Salazar, the older brother of Ken Salazar, is the guy the ad is gunning for.

“We realize if this attack group couldn’t even get John’s name right that it’s probably a tall order for them to get his voting record straight, as well,” said John Salazar campaign spokeswoman Tara Trujillo. “To set the record straight, John voted for the Stupak Amendment in the House to the health care bill, which prohibited taxpayer-funded abortions.”

You knew it would happen sooner or later–the ad gets the facts and the candidate’s name wrong, which together say a mouthful about the mindless boilerplate being circulated around the country today. Ken John Salazar is just another name on Sarah Palin’s target list, after all, and there’s money to burn on the GOP side. Who cares, right?

The risk, of course, is that this ad will contribute to a growing perception of truthless noise dominating “independent” message efforts among the voters, hastening the point of diminishing return that some pundits believe was reached weeks ago. That hurts both sides’ efforts in theory, but GOP-leaning groups are the ones outspending their opponents…

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14 thoughts on “Oops! (Wrong Salazar Edition)

  1. There are often blatantly false ads running around, sometimes it’s pants on fire and sometimes it’s just ignorance.  Fine.  When has that ever stopped people listening?  Frankly, if people are paying close enough attention to figure out the ads can’t be trusted, they wouldn’t be tempted to listen to them in the first place.

    “Higher taxes,

    higher taxes,

    higher taxes…”

    Come on.

  2. Who has been in the news recently associated with a massive man-made disaster?  Oh, yeah – Ken Salazar.

    They may have some polling data suggesting Ken is perceived poorly, and want to try to associate that with John.

    1. The people who put this ad together aren’t that smart.  It’s just a mistake.  If they really wanted to tie the two together, they would’ve made a big thing about John following in Ken’s footsteps.  Cue ominous music… they’re related.  Family photos overlapping oil covered wildlife.  Air on local TV.  Turn it into audio.  Ta da.

      I appreciate your faith though.

      1. Said his name was associated with it.

        And, IMO – Interior’s oversight of offshore drilling permit approvals was sloppy before the BP disaster – under his watch.  Not to the point of “fault” – that was clearly BP – but to the point of “might have averted disaster”.

        Seems to be getting better now.  Nothing like a record-shattering spill to inspire the troops.

          1. But it is not clear to me that Salazar cleaned things up as well as he could have.  Hence my “sloppy” comment.  It’s possible, of course, that these doubts were planted by right-wing mischief-makers.  But right now, it looks like Salazar needs to work extra hard to retain his reputation and his position.

            From http://www.rollingstone.com/po… (and no, I was not smoking anything when I read it 🙂


            Salazar did little to tamp down on the lawlessness at MMS, beyond referring a few employees for criminal prosecution and ending a Bush-era program that allowed oil companies to make their “royalty” payments – the amount they owe taxpayers for extracting a scarce public resource – not in cash but in crude. And instead of putting the brakes on new offshore drilling, Salazar immediately throttled it up to record levels. Even though he had scrapped the Bush plan, Salazar put 53 million offshore acres up for lease in the Gulf in his first year alone – an all-time high. The aggressive leasing came as no surprise, given Salazar’s track record. “This guy has a long, long history of promoting offshore oil drilling – that’s his thing,” says KierГЎn Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. “He’s got a highly specific soft spot for offshore oil drilling.” As a senator, Salazar not only steered passage of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act, which opened 8 million acres in the Gulf to drilling, he even criticized President Bush for not forcing oil companies to develop existing leases faster.

              1. But did he have to ramp up leasing rates so aggressively?

                I’m not saying he is evil incarnate.  I’m not even advocating for him to step down or be fired.  Just saying that I wish the same passion we see now was on exhibit during 2009.

                And, the original post postulated dirty tricks, which only have to do with perceptions, not reality.

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