{"id":683723,"date":"2010-03-05T13:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70938"},"modified":"2010-03-05T13:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:30:05","slug":"blanche-lincoln-responds-to-ad-criticism-by-lashing-out-at-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/683723","title":{"rendered":"Blanche Lincoln Responds to Ad Criticism by Lashing Out at Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Bill Halter’s campaign points out that Blanche Lincoln’s remarkably bad new spot<\/a> — in which she rails against “money for Wall Street” — is misleading, to say the least.<\/a><\/p>\n

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In fact Senator Lincoln voted to fund a massive, no-strings-attached bailout for Wall Street on October 1, 2008 when she voted for H.R. 1424, the Troubled Asset Relief Fund, also known as TARP, Halter said in the statement.
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\n\u201cSenator Lincoln has received over a million dollars from the exact special interests she claims to be saying no to. Taking their money and claiming to fight for average Arkansans just doesn\u2019t wash. <\/strong>That is not how Lieutenant Governor Halter does business,\u201d said Halter spokesperson Bud Jackson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So Blanche responds like she always does. She trashes the left<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf we want to talk about misleading advertising, we might look at Bill\u2019s first ad,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cIt puts a football in his hands and highlights his humble roots when, in fact, he\u2019s a multimillionaire who somehow talked labor unions into paying off a half-million-dollar campaign debt to himself with the union dues of their members so he can run for higher office.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Uh-huh. AFL-CIO’s support of Halter has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that Blanche screwed them on EFCA<\/a> and screwed them on Craig Becker<\/a>. It’s all because Bill Halter “somehow” talked them into it.<\/p>\n

How many more traditional Democratic constituents Blanche can alienate before election day? She’s off to a great start.<\/p>\n

Donate to Bill Halter\u2019s campaign.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tags: Bill Halter<\/a>, Blanche Lincoln<\/a>, DINOs<\/a>, Labor<\/a>, Senate<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bill Halter’s campaign points out that Blanche Lincoln’s remarkably bad new spot — in which she rails against “money for Wall Street” — is misleading, to say the least. In fact Senator Lincoln voted to fund a massive, no-strings-attached bailout for Wall Street on October 1, 2008 when she voted for H.R. 1424, the Troubled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RRN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}