OR-1: Blumenauer "runs down" Cornilles
Carla Axtman
Yeah, "run down" in quotes, meaning metaphorically. Sorry. It's a Friday at the end of a very long work week. They can't all be gems.
Due to Team Rob Cornilles inability to come up with something even remotely original for their TV ad (which seems about right to me, since his whole campaign to date has been recycled GOP pablum, tailored to which ever audience is in attendance that day), Team Earl Blumenauer has felt the need to respond, mostly because the ad is strikingly close to Earl's ad from 1996.
At first, the Blumenauer response was essentially, "Quit copying us and do your own ad, Bonehead." But Team B has decided to ratchet the whole thing up a notch by airing their original ad in response.
From the press release:
“It’s clear that Rob Cornilles is trying to be Earl Blumenauer for Halloween and we’re going to take off the mask and remind people of his positions on the issues,” said Willie Smith, Blumenauer campaign manager.
Blumenauer's ad was first produced and run in 1996, when then-Portland City Commissioner Earl Blumenauer was running in a special Congressional election to replace Ron Wyden in the U.S. House. Fifteen years later Republican Rob Cornilles is running a remarkably similar ad that has already caused controversy, in part because it shows him running in the 3rd Congressional district (held by Blumenauer) and tries to mislead first district voters about his well-documented, strictly conservative agenda– privatizing Social Security and Medicare, denying climate change, opposing women’s reproductive choice, and embracing the Tea Party.
Here's Earl's ad, which you'll be seeing if you're in the Portland market:
And Cornilles ad:
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4:57 p.m.
Oct 28, '11
lol, what a joke. Both candidates running away from our problems...pathetic Earl is upset, and Cornilles ad makes the greatest reason not to vote in his ad by saying, "sending more politicians to DC will not fix anything"....right? thats why nobody's going to vote for him.
5:07 p.m.
Oct 28, '11
Earl runs like the last pick in PE Class. Looks fake.
7:08 p.m.
Oct 28, '11
So you seriously plan to pick on the way the guy runs? Really?
Pathetic.
3:21 p.m.
Oct 30, '11
Um, it sure does seem like Earl can run pretty fast.
1:21 a.m.
Oct 29, '11
So no mention of Earl getting booed off the stage today at Pioneer Square? Oh and why was it that he upset so many liberals at the big hippy love in? It makes you wonder if you all do his website and bulk email? I would think that would be more interesting to your readers than some old ass commercial.
10:45 a.m.
Oct 29, '11
Well...it would seem this post brought out the trolls. LOL
4:03 p.m.
Oct 29, '11
If you want to call asking an honest question trolling then I guess you got me. I would ask though why two commercials fifteen years apart of people jogging, a pastime taken up by a bulk of people in the area, is of more worthy of coverage than Earl getting booed at his own event by his own people?
In my opinion the man was targeted by his usual socialist comrades that would rather not have trade at all. He was booed for one of the smarter votes he has made in congress, that and him voting to get rid of tariffs to support failing US clothing manufacturers. Oh yeah and his support for the Defense of Marriage Act, he was good on that too.
12:37 p.m.
Oct 30, '11
There's no honesty in throwing around the label "socialist" in the way that you are.
8:34 p.m.
Oct 31, '11
Maybe there was no mention of Earl being booed off the stage because he WASN'T booed off the stage. A tiny group of hecklers started trying to shout him down, and shut up after Storm Large (politely) dressed them down for their bad manners. He then continued his speech uninterrupted and got applause at the end from the overwhelming majority of people there.
7:12 a.m.
Oct 29, '11
Earl runs past his accomplishments!
Cornilles runs a copycat ad with zero accomplishments.
Cornilles is what he is, a very bad fit for my former voting District. He cannot disguise his previous statements or positions on social security, reproductive rights, medicare, public education or his embrace of Tea Party extreamism.
8:20 p.m.
Oct 29, '11
This dude is a progressive in Republican clothing ... the Tea Party wants nothing to do with him ... actually, a group of Tea Partiers actually endorsed Bonamici over Cornilles
HYSTERICAL!
http://www.facebook.com/teaparty4bonamici
9:59 a.m.
Oct 29, '11
@John Burchalter: I was not able to attend the Pioneer Courthouse Sq. event as I had to work, but having read an account by Jim Redden it seems the booing of Blumenauer was about his support of free-trade agreements. So, IMO, the booing was justified. No doubt DeFazio was well received.
4:06 p.m.
Oct 29, '11
He was booed I guess for not being socialist enough and realizing that big corporations create jobs and need to be able to trade freely.
8:37 p.m.
Oct 31, '11
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
3:40 p.m.
Oct 29, '11
I don't know about the free-trade agreements, but if Earl ain't perfect, he's still darn good to have in D.C. Keep runnin', Earl!
8:50 p.m.
Oct 29, '11
@John Burchalter: this is from the 1972 Republican Party platform: "We deplore the practice of locating plants in foreign countries solely to take advantage of low wage rates in order to produce goods primarily for sale in the United States." Brought to you by the socialist, Richard Nixon.
11:01 a.m.
Oct 30, '11
Richard Nixon was a socialist, you are right on that. He instituted price controls and finished up Johnson's Great Society agenda. As far as I'm concerned you can have the crook. The irony of course is that from what you've pointed out is that Earl B. is a better Republican than Nixon.
12:32 p.m.
Oct 30, '11
I think the term "socialist" is being used too loosely here. How about "populist"?
12:34 p.m.
Oct 30, '11
And what about Ike? He expanded Social Security and had a top marginal tax rate of 91%.
1:09 p.m.
Nov 3, '11
Seems a bit egotistical for Blumenauer to think Cornilles was copying him, let alone aware of an ad from 15 years ago.