Using John McCain's .... interesting, shall we say? .... event last week in Lakeville as a backdrop, 2nd district DFL congressional candidate Steve Sarvi is calling attention to Republican smear attacks and using them to raise a bit of money:
Dear friend:
How would you caption this photo?
It's from last Friday at one of the most bizarre campaign events yet. Friday, the 2nd District played host to a rally in support of the Republican ticket. As John Kline looked on, Sen. John McCain was forced to take the microphone from a supporter who claimed she couldn't support Barack Obama because of his race - the wrong race.
Candidates should run on their records, not false personal attacks against their opponents. So much misinformation has been spread about Democratic candidates this year, it's shameful.
And I'm next.
On Monday, John Kline is launching his first television ads. While my campaign will continue to keep the focus on what John Kline has and hasn't done in Congress, we can expect John Kline to be John Kline. In 2006, he tried to convince voters his opponent wanted to legalize methamphetamine. In 2004, Mr. Kline took his opponent to task for - get this: supporting him two years earlier. The aim is to distract from the real issues facing us - because when you can't run on your record, that's what you have to do.
We in the blogosphere have raised a bit of money for Sarvi in the past couple of months, but it's urgently needed now to make sure he has the best chance possible to knock off one of the most reactionary, backwards Republicans in Congress.
Just in case you missed it, here's a video of that event. Although I'm quite sure Kline wouldn't take a question from me or any of my blogger colleagues, it might be interesting to see whether he agrees with his constituent who made those ridiculous, false, and ethnically biased claims or with John McCain who, realizing the kind of violent racism he and his running mate were letting out into the open, tried to walk back these sentiments on Friday -- and got booed by his own base for it.
