Markey Featured Prominently in NY Times

Markey is running a solid, virtually flawless campaign

thus far. Not to be a Debbie Downer, but color me unimpressed with her first tv ad, though.

CD-4 is also in the top 20 races to watch, I think in the Washington Post? Somebody had a link to it earlier today.

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by: Middle of the Road @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 17:18:56 PM UTC

Boring

What was the point of the ad?  That she owns several pairs of slacks?  This ad is as bad as the Fitz-Gerald and Shafroth ads.

If, Obama wins her District Markey goes to Congress. If Obamaa loses that district as he is likely to do another term for Marilyn and Cory will have to wait to another day.

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by: Something Is Brewing @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 17:48:55 PM UTC

I agree

I think running a bio ad is a good move right now but this ad is not memorable.

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by: DavidThi808 @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 17:53:29 PM UTC

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Markey is solid

It's good to see Markey is highlighting her achievements such as building a fortune 500 company! Who's she running against again? Oh yeah, some Bush smooching conservative who has nothing to offer but more of the same religious right in your bedroom policies.  

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by: Go Blue @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 18:12:17 PM UTC

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She didn't build a Fortune 500 company, Go Blue.

Her web site says:
Betsy and her husband started an Internet business, Syscom Services, from their home in the late 1980s.  By 1996 with Betsy as CEO and CFO, the business had grown to be number 99 on Inc's list of the 500 fasted-growing private companies in America.
The typo fasted is on her web site, presumably it means Fastest.  But being one of the 500 fastest growing PRIVATE companies in America is very different than being on the Fortune 500.    

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by: bob ewegen @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 18:43:40 PM UTC

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Oops

Thanks Bob, and it's still rather impressive.  

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by: Go Blue @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 19:47:21 PM UTC

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Definitely is impressive

to have that kind of business experience.

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by: bob ewegen @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 19:57:28 PM UTC

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And unlike Wil Armstrong

She's not claiming that there need to be more businesswomen in Congress and fewer politicians. She uses her business credentials to make her case without being a hypocrite like Wil. I also like that the ad touts her fiscal conservatism, that is what will play well with CD-4 voters.

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by: redstateblues @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 20:04:45 PM UTC

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The thing I disliked about Fitz-Gerald

is that I pretty much never saw a positive ad about her. I literally didn't know what her face looked like until the day before the election. I don't know if she was running bio ads, but I never saw any.

I like this one. Obviously she's going to have to do something against Musgrave; whenever I've talked to people in Longmont, I either heard mild support for Musgrave or intense dislike of her. A lot of people there WANT to vote against Musgrave, and the main thing that went wrong last time around was the intense negative campaigning against Paccione.

So a good bio ad early on helps immunize her from negatives to some extent. I think it's as good a strategy as any.

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by: sxp151 @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 18:51:23 PM UTC

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This would be unbelievable

True enough, she's a solid candidate and she's running a flawless campaign. But the idea of CD4 not remaining republican simply doesn't seem realistic.

But.....if she wins, that definately means the amendment 48 con didn't work and Obama carried CD4. BIG IF!

No matter what, hats off to Betsy. She just may be a sign of better things to come.

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by: rocco @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 18:36:50 PM UTC

Musgrave & CD-4

Notably, from the article:

"(Ms. Musgrave's office did not respond to repeated e-mail and phone requests for comment about the energy debate in her district.)"

She's been in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this week hoping to "find facts" about drilling, but no comments on energy in CD-4?  

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by: Commenter @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 18:56:41 PM UTC

Maybe she's searching for "better" facts.

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by: DavidThi808 @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 19:02:09 PM UTC

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Markey Featured Prominently in the NY Times?

Oh, that should play well in the conservative 4th CD!  That headline alone sounds like a ready made TV ad for Marilyn Musgrave.  

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by: DrewKerin @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 20:09:43 PM UTC

Good observation Drew n/t

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by: redstateblues @ Fri Aug 22, 2008 at 20:11:30 PM UTC

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